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Finger cut.

So today I was at work (I work with alcohol). A can p beer fell into a drainage bin in the back beer storage room, I reached in to grab it and a broken beer bottle glass cut my thumb and it bled pretty well for a bit then stopped. I'm wondering if I should be concerned about this and get tested or move on. I washed it off with soap an hand sanitizer. I then put peroxide on it. But back to my question. Should I be concerned or move on?
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1519393 tn?1306802108
A broken beer bottle will not transmit HIV even if it had blood on it and cut you and you started bleeding...you had no risk , you had no exposure, it is not equivalent to a needle stick injury
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"But I'm wondering what would be the difference in a needle stick and my incident (a dirty beer bottle in a drainage gutter in the back room of a store cutting my thumb)?"

The blood in the needle is protected from air- that's the difference.
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But if there was contaminated blood on both objects then wouldn't both exposures be equivalent and I should ask my doc about pep today?
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The exposure.
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Well put Teak. I somewhat understand. But I'm wondering what would be the difference in a needle stick and my incident (a dirty beer bottle in a drainage gutter in the back room of a store cutting my thumb)?
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