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HIV HCV RISK or Just Wild Imagination
Hello, I have read that hepatitis C can live in the environment for at least 16 hours but not longer than 4 days.
In your opinion how likely is it to get infected with this virus through environmental contacts? Do I need to be worried every time I get a cut out in public?
I understand I would not get HIV from cutting myself on something a HIV infected person just cut themselves on because the virus does not live outside the body that long. But I am unclear with Hepatitis C.
Yesterday i was in our office trying to make jokes to everyone...when i got home i had dried blood in my fingernail.. and i have a wound near my fingernail. I felt hurt but i forget to check in our office because i was talking to my client.but i don't have any idea where did i get this wound. Do i need to be concern in this matter
I felt hurt that time but i ignored that pain.The pain is not so very painful thats why i ignored it. I am thinking that it can be a syringe that hit my finger near my fingernail...
1. Do i need to be concern in this matter
2. In you expert opinion should i go for hiv, hbv and hcv test?
3. I will be on No Risk , High Risk, Low Risk Situation?
4. if i got pricked by a syringe, it is possible to ignore the pain that cause by it or you just cannot ignore it?
In your opinion how likely is it to get infected with this virus through environmental contacts? Do I need to be worried every time I get a cut out in public?
I understand I would not get HIV from cutting myself on something a HIV infected person just cut themselves on because the virus does not live outside the body that long. But I am unclear with Hepatitis C.
Yesterday i was in our office trying to make jokes to everyone...when i got home i had dried blood in my fingernail.. and i have a wound near my fingernail. I felt hurt but i forget to check in our office because i was talking to my client.but i don't have any idea where did i get this wound. Do i need to be concern in this matter
I felt hurt that time but i ignored that pain.The pain is not so very painful thats why i ignored it. I am thinking that it can be a syringe that hit my finger near my fingernail...
1. Do i need to be concern in this matter
2. In you expert opinion should i go for hiv, hbv and hcv test?
3. I will be on No Risk , High Risk, Low Risk Situation?
4. if i got pricked by a syringe, it is possible to ignore the pain that cause by it or you just cannot ignore it?
MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL
You're asking the same question in different words. I already said the answer is yes: you could have been injured by a needle and not been aware of it. But that doesn't mean it was likely. Almost certainly that did not happen.
That will end this thread. I will have no further comments or advice.
That will end this thread. I will have no further comments or advice.
Dr HHH,
I got wounded in our office but that time i have meeting to my client so i just ignore it..
I dont know what was that wounded me.
So my question only.
if i got pricked by a syringe, it is possible to ignore the pain that cause by it or you just cannot ignore it?
I got wounded in our office but that time i have meeting to my client so i just ignore it..
I dont know what was that wounded me.
So my question only.
if i got pricked by a syringe, it is possible to ignore the pain that cause by it or you just cannot ignore it?
MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL
Welcome to the forum.
No blood-borne virus (HIV, HBV, HCV) will survive in blood that has dried, certainly not after several days.
Can people be stuck by needles and not know it? Of course. All human beings discover cuts and nicks, sometimes even with significant bleeding, with no recollection of an injury themselves, especially when their mind is focused on something else. This is apparently what happened to you. But I see no reason to suppose it might have been a needle recently used by a person with a blood borne infection, especially if you don't have a visible wound of the sort made by a needle stick. If I were in your situation, I would assume it did not.
So the answers to your first 3 questions are 1) no, 2) no, 3) no risk, and 4) I doubt you suffered a needle injury.
Best wishes-- HHH, MD
No blood-borne virus (HIV, HBV, HCV) will survive in blood that has dried, certainly not after several days.
Can people be stuck by needles and not know it? Of course. All human beings discover cuts and nicks, sometimes even with significant bleeding, with no recollection of an injury themselves, especially when their mind is focused on something else. This is apparently what happened to you. But I see no reason to suppose it might have been a needle recently used by a person with a blood borne infection, especially if you don't have a visible wound of the sort made by a needle stick. If I were in your situation, I would assume it did not.
So the answers to your first 3 questions are 1) no, 2) no, 3) no risk, and 4) I doubt you suffered a needle injury.
Best wishes-- HHH, MD
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