Risk of blood in eye

[Tong77]

Dear sirs, I am very afraid of what happened to me yesterday. I was in the shop when I saw a man passing by and   waving his hands. At that moment I felt a drop of liquid landed into my eye. I noticed his hands had cuts and scratches but no streaming blood outside. I became nervous, perhaps it was blood. 30 minutes afterwards, I took eyedrops (sulfate natrium). I'm really scared as I read that there had been an accident with medical technician who opened the vial with  blood and became infected. So my question is is there a risk in the described situation to get hiv? Thanks in advance. Really nervous of it. Do I need pep?

[AnxiousNoMore]

You had no HIV risk and a test will be a waste of time.  PEP would be a giant mistake and has side effects.

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.  there is no need to put anything in your eye because any virus that landed in the eye is already dead.
Only adult risks are the following:
1. unprotected penetrating vaginal
2. unprotected penetrating anal sex
3. sharing needles that you inject with. Knowing these 3 are all you need to know to protect yourself against HIV. Your situation 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. The above HIV science is 40 years old and very well established so there is no detail that you can add that will make any of your encounter a risk for HIV.  No one in 40 years of HIV history got HIV from the situation you are concerned about so it is unlikely that it will happen in the next 40 of your lifetime either.
You should stop Googling because you can read anything including pure lies.

I really doubt the man sprayed a drop of blood in your eye, because you don't even know if anything went in there - you said you think a drop landed which is likely too small for you to even feel anyway..

[Tong77]

Thanks for reply. As I understood  there had been no such an accident through 40 years leading to hiv transmission? How my accident correlates with accidents in hospitals where doctors were infected through their eyes? In my case if  knew for sure it was his infected drop, was it still a risk? I'm trying to calm myself through finding answers and impossibleness of that story. Thanks a lot for your reply!

[AnxiousNoMore]

Reread about lies, the 3 and the 40 and move on from HIV.  We rely on the opinion of expert doctors instead of other sites that you are worried about.

[Tong77]

Dear AnxiousNoMore, Thanks a lot. One more question please.
You told that in this situation there is no risk at all. I've a review where an accident with hiv blood into eye was described.
https://journals.lww.com/aidsonline/fulltext/2000/01280/hiv_1_infection_transmitted_by_serum_droplets_into.19.aspx
Was it a trusted journal?
Was there the difference between mine and that? Please answer!!!

[Tong77]

This is the last question, answer please

[AnxiousNoMore]

Which of the 3 do you feel you did that made an hiv risk?

[Tong77]

I did non of the three

[Kirstie_MHModerator]

There is nothing to add regarding your no-risk event.  As AnxiousNoMore posted the 3 ways you can contract HIV, and you did none of those 3 things, you were not at risk and can move on from this event.

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