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Hiv infection through IV glucose drip.
Okay I went with one of my relatives to a hospital where many patients were admitted due to ongoing viral fever season. One of the patient was very sick. Nurse came to us first, and started the new drip in between she had to go to the patient i described. She changed his drip as well without gloves. Then she came to us and started giving injection through butterfly syringe. She also changed the bottle and inserted a new needle for air into that. My concern is that what if there was some blood stain on her hand and with the same hand she did the entire above process. I also tried to look for some blood stains on her hand but couldn't find any. The whole process took place very quickly. Is there any risk of hiv to my relative. We are very concerned.
Your fear that a clinic is spreading hIV is not logical. You don't have any medical training, so it is unrealistic for you to think that you determined the nurse doesn't know how to do their job and unrealistic for you to think the nurse has infected people but no one but you ever figured this out.
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This answers all your HIV questions and if you think of any others, then you can get the answer if you just reread about the 3.
You had no risk for HIV so a test would be a waste of time.
HIV is instantly inactivated in air and also in saliva which means it is effectively dead so it can't infect from touching, external rubbing or oral activities. It doesn't matter if you and they were actively bleeding or had cuts at the time either because the HIV is effectively dead.
Only 3 adult risks are the following:
1. unprotected penetrating vaginal with a penis
2. unprotected penetrating anal sex with a penis
3. sharing needles that you inject with. Knowing these 3 are all you need to know to protect yourself against HIV. The situation you describe is a long way from any of these 3.
Even with blood, lactation, cuts, rashes, burns, etc the air or the saliva does not allow inactivated virus to infect from touching, external rubbing or oral activities. Doctors have calculated the risk from what you describe to be less than that of being hit by a meteor, therefore no one will get HIV from what you did in the next 40 years of your life either. The above HIV science is 40 years old and very well established, so no detail that you can add to your encounter will change it from zero risk.
You had no risk for HIV so a test would be a waste of time.
HIV is instantly inactivated in air and also in saliva which means it is effectively dead so it can't infect from touching, external rubbing or oral activities. It doesn't matter if you and they were actively bleeding or had cuts at the time either because the HIV is effectively dead.
Only 3 adult risks are the following:
1. unprotected penetrating vaginal with a penis
2. unprotected penetrating anal sex with a penis
3. sharing needles that you inject with. Knowing these 3 are all you need to know to protect yourself against HIV. The situation you describe is a long way from any of these 3.
Even with blood, lactation, cuts, rashes, burns, etc the air or the saliva does not allow inactivated virus to infect from touching, external rubbing or oral activities. Doctors have calculated the risk from what you describe to be less than that of being hit by a meteor, therefore no one will get HIV from what you did in the next 40 years of your life either. The above HIV science is 40 years old and very well established, so no detail that you can add to your encounter will change it from zero risk.
I am not saying that clinic is spreading hiv intentionally. But the sequence of events was too fast. I never ever say that any clinic spread the deadly disease, But sometimes unawareness leads to. So you are saying that any blood stain or diluted blood will become inactive instantly coming in the contact of air/finger. But some other websites claim that it takes minutes to become virus ineffective. I am just worried. Thanks for the warm reply.
No clinic ever gives a patient HIV.
It is unrealistic for you to think that you can just walk into a hospital without any medical training and figure out the nurses are doing some dangerous practice that no one working there has ever noticed before.
The first step to peace is to quit googling cold turkey. If you continue to Google for death, you can always find some site that tells you that you can die from whatever you plan to do in the next 10 minutes.
It is unrealistic for you to think that you can just walk into a hospital without any medical training and figure out the nurses are doing some dangerous practice that no one working there has ever noticed before.
The first step to peace is to quit googling cold turkey. If you continue to Google for death, you can always find some site that tells you that you can die from whatever you plan to do in the next 10 minutes.
Thankyou. So no need to testing?
based on the answers AnxiousNoMore gave you, do you really think your relative needs to test or are you just anxious? there is no need to test for something it's impossible to get. they do not infect patients in hospitals with HIV, and you've been told that HIV is inactive in airx and given how it could actually be transmitted in adults.
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