rubbing eyes and hiv

[jigri]

Goodevening Doctor,

I touched a door handle today to open the door in a  very busy public  toilet and  about a minute after that i rubbed my eyes.
After  rubbing my eyes  i saw a little  blood on my fingers which i am sure i got from that door handle.
I read here that blood getting into eye is a risk?
am i at risk if there was hiv positive blood on the door handle?
should i need to test or need pep?
Also i have an hiv phobia since my best friend tested hiv positive and also learning how hiv transmission takes place?

[H. Hunter Handsfield, M.D.]

Welcome to the forum.

This is no risk.  If people could catch HIV by this sort of contact, AIDS would be a hundred times more common than it is and it wouldn't be classfied as a sexually transmitted and blood-borne infection.  There would also be occasional persons with HIV who didn't have sexual or blood exposure risks. But there are no such infected persons.  You shouldn't be at all worried about this and don't need testing.

If your "HIV phobia" continues, I would recommend professional counseling.  Irrational fear of contagion sometimes is the first symptom of serious mental health illness (see "The Aviator", the film biography of Howard Hughes, for an excellent example of this).

Regards--  HHH, MD

[jigri]

ok doctor thanks i got it

[H. Hunter Handsfield, M.D.]

Thanks foe the thanks.  But if you keep asking anxiety-driven questions that have already been answered (like the ones I deleted), the entire thread will be deleted without further comment.

[jigri]

thanks doctor...may god bless you...

[H. Hunter Handsfield, M.D.]

You correctly understand how to be sure you will never catch HIV.  Beyond that, you're  asking me to repeat the same information in different words.  I haven't changed my mind.  

[jigri]

Thanks for the reply doctor
i shall definitely watch this movie for sure and i have been taking professional counseling and my counsellor told me that if

1) i don't have unprotected sex (oral anal and vaginal)
2) i don't share injections with other people (drugs)
3) If i don't get transfused with hiv positive blood

then i  can never get hiv for sure and i have  nothing to worry at all and put my mind at other things than thinking about hiv  but since she is a physiatrist and not hiv specialist so i just wanted to confirm with you if she is 100 % right or not?