HIV risk ? for vance , teak or nurse girl

[Mari0128]

While having a blood test done , the nurse placed a elastic band on my arm to draw blood , while taking it off, a little bit of my blood got on the elastic from the needle stick, supposedly someone's  hiv blood had gotten on the elastic before me and it touched the area where the nurse just drew blood from,can this put me at risk for HIV

[handyman705]

No it cannot pose any risk for HIV.It is a biological impossibility.
In order for HIV to infect it needs to latch on to receptor cells inside the body and it needs a quantity of infectious fluid far greater than what you were exposed to.

[Mari0128]

Yes it was a tourniquet, made of elastic tho, even if it wasn't washed or sterilized , still no risk? Also if the cotton ball I used had blood from someone else , does that also pose as a no risk?

[bmthbloke]

I'm neither of those 3 but I shall answer anyway.  Aren't I nice.

To answer your question there is no risk. I'm hoping the aid she used to take the blood wasn't an elastic band but in fact a tourniquet. At my hospital if these get contaminated with blood they are washed but the cleaning services and sterilised.

Also the hiv virus does very quickly when the conditions are less than perfect so the virus would long have died between patients.