Hi everyone,
On april 2 ,2022 i went to a barber while he was giving the haircut he cut himself accidentally with the scissors and as soon as possible he went to clean it and applied a bandage and when he was about to start haircut I insisted him to wear a glove and clean his glove with sanitiser and scissors with after shave liquid and blow dry it for 5 sec which he did and started my haircut and he used trimmer as well to shave my beard . But after 2 weeks i was having sore throat and difficulty breathing i went to doctor he gave me antibiotics and I explained him the scenario about what has happened at barber so he told the chances are low and i asked him to write hiv test and got tested for anti body test for hiv 1 and 2 on 22nd day after exposure to haircut and results were negetive but its been like 42 days since then i still have sore throat. Can you please help me with knowing are there any chances of contracting or should i retest it .
Thanks in advance .
Hiv is a fragile virus in air or saliva and is effectively instantly dead in either air or saliva so the WORST that could happen is dead virus rubbed you, and obviously anything which is dead cannot live again so you are good. Blood and cuts would not be relevant in your situation since the hiv has become effectively dead, so you don't have to worry about them to be sure that you are safe.
There is no reason for a person to test when they are safe. The advice took into consideration that the other person might be positive, so move on and enjoy life instead of thinking about this non-event. hiv prevention is straightforward since there are only 3 ways you can become infected, so next time you wonder if you had a risk, ask yourself this QUESTION. "Did I do any of the 3?" Then after you say "No, I didn't" you will know that it's time to move on back to your happy life.
No one got hiv from what you did during 40 years of hiv history and no one will get it in the next 40 years of your life either. You can do what you did any time and be safe from hiv.
The other person's status is irrelevant when you have no exposure to live virus.
You can't have hiv so any test was and will be a waste of time. Your doc just wrote the hiv test you because you were very anxious and he wanted to get you out of his office. This thought tht people get hiv from cuts IS NOT WELL THOUGHT OUT BY YOU AND YOUR DOCTOR -- everyone accidentally touches someone else's bleeding cut every year yet no one gets hiv.