Need your help! Am i infected

[sham2387]

Hi All, i recently had my ear piercing with gunshot (Non-hallow, Sewing needle type) . He used the sterile new ear stud to do the gun shot piercing.
But before i got my gunshot, that guy was doing tattooing to some other unknown person. after finishing his tattoo which took some 15 minutes, he wiped that guy's  tattoo with a gel(yellow color - I dont know what was that exactly) in fore finger and later wiped his hands to a cloth beside him. after approximately 2 mins later, he took the ear stud what i selected from the box in the same hand fixed it in to the gun and it pierced my ear lobe.
My questions are.,
1. if the guy who got tattood is infected and since this guy's hand made contact with his blood along with gel and from the same hand he held my ear stud and did the piercing, i feel there was minute blood present in his hand tranfered to surfece of the stud. is there any risk of transmitting disease??

I was wearing that stud for 3 days and later removed it. i also tested on 10th day and negative.

Please help me.. am freaked out :(

[sham2387]

Thank you sir!! you made my day :)

[diver58]

No it can't. The only risk is the shared syringe because it has vacuum inside where HIV can survive for weeks.

You had no risk, so move on with your life

[sham2387]

Thanks sir,

So a sewing needle can not transfer hiv because it doesnot have hallow space inside?? correct?? and infected flesh blood on the sewing needle also can not transmit and can not be blood to blood contact??

Please clarify so that i can move back to my normal life.. scared like a hell because there was only 2 min gap between blood touched his hand and my gunshot piercing and same stud i was wearing for 3 days..

[diver58]

As I said, your risk of HIV is just non existent from this exposure. Even if there was blood as you saw, and even if that blood belonged to an infected person, even than it does not shift your risk from zero because HIV inactivates as soon as it leaves the host body. Its ability to infect another person is zero outside the body.

HIV transmission has the following routes.

1, Sexual

a) Unprotected anal sex
b) Unprotected vaginal sex

2. Non Sexual

a) Sharing syringes as drug users do
b) Transfusion of blood without proper screening. A threat only for third world nations.
c) From mother to child

And that's it.

You do not need any test for HIV because you were never exposed.

[sham2387]

Hi Diver,

Thanks for the information. but what i was concerned is since i saw little blood on the surface of the needle and it went through my ear lobe, dont it get contacted with my blood after and while pircing/??

sorry but wanted to know how exactly it transmitts. and i saw in some forums that people got infectaed by hallow needle. So they got infected because it was a halow needle and had little blood inside the hallow space?? am i right?? and i didnt bleed after piercing and removed it on the third day itself and it got closed next day. there was no infection, puss formation and inflamtion..

So am i safe? and i no need to do any test??? Please clarify.. thanks

[sham2387]

Please somebody help on the above regard :(