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Today a student from nursing school told me that she had made a mistake on me about 40 days ago. At that time, she was offering a blood test and I tested my blood sugar. Now she suddenly notice that she forgot to change the blood taking needle at that time, i.e., she used the same needle that was used to take the previous man's blood sample on my finger. It means that I may get some disease transferred from the previous person. The needle is a small and solid one. I am quite worried now. I want to ask the probability of getting a HIV if the previous man has it. Thanks. If necessary, I should go and contact my personal doctor.
Today a student from nursing school told me that she had made a mistake on me about 40 days ago. At that time, she was offering a blood test and I tested my blood sugar. Now she suddenly notice that she forgot to change the blood taking needle at that time, i.e., she used the same needle that was used to take the previous man's blood sample on my finger. It means that I may get some disease transferred from the previous person. The needle is a small and solid one. I am quite worried now. I want to ask the probability of getting a HIV if the previous man has it. Thanks. If necessary, I should go and contact my personal doctor.
I would test for HEP B and C and nothing more.There is no Hiv risk here because Hiv becomes inactive and unable to infect you as soon as it is exposed to air.It doesn,t survive outside the body,Transmission occurs inside the body NOT outside it.Your safe from Hiv infection.
Thank you for your reply, Adam. The girl who made this mistake is actually a student from nursing school in my university and she has already contact with her teacher to make a further test or treatment on me next Monday. It is like a nightmare to me. I hope it will be fine.
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Firstly, nursing school or not, student or not - that kind of mistake should not be happening. But we can't change that now.
Secondly, your probability for infection. It's very low infact around the 0.67% mark in fact. This is based on 10,000 potential exposures. So as you can see, the potential for infection is lower than you would think. HIV isn't something that can 'jump' from one person to another, it is more difficult to transmit. Whilst you are in a lower risk catergory, you are still at slightly more risk than somebody engaging in all kinds of sexual activty.
However, due to the fact that we don't know the status of the previous man, we have to assume that no matter how low the risk, you have still nevertheless been put at risk. We have to assume that the last person was HIV+ for any of this to mean anything, and that in itself isnt very llikely.
I would do two things from here:
1) Contact your local doctor and arrange some blood tests, if you explain what has happened he will know what to screen for, (Hepatits, Syphillis, HIV etc)
2) A test 3 months after is conclusive, however you can sometimes get earlier indications with a P24 Antigen test - ask for this alongside the HIV Anti-body test
I hope this has helped, I'm sure everything will be fine.
Adam