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hiv from blood draw
I'm sorry for bothering all of you here.i have a few questions and i hope that you could help me throw all my HIV concerns away.I have a very small risk 10 weeks ago(kissing risk) and i decided to do HIV Murex combine tests at 7 weeks and 10 weeks.Both of these tests are negative.But at the last time, when drawing my blood, the doctor didn't change her glove.she also used her hand to hold cootten wool wipe on my skin before drawing blood.i didn't see any blood at that time but there is any chance to get infected hiv if her glove was having blood of other people?
Thanks for your answers very much.i wanted to take an hiv test to be sure that i'm fine and i can move on.But i don't know why there always has been something happening when i was almost done.and the scare and worry keep following me.I just want to focus on my work and take care of my family without concern about hiv.The feeling when you are working but worrying about something worse is so terrible .I really would like a peace in my mind.
I meant that i was worried if there was blood on the doctor's glove touching my arm.but at that moment, i didn't see any blood on my arm when she began drawing my blood.when it was done, some blood came out and that was mine.so the virus hiv couldn't be alive outside without blood,is that right?
I don't know what you mean by "blood at the beginning". No matter what, there was no risk. Period. Stop worrying about it.
So If there was no blood of at the begining,there was no risk for me getting infected hiv
Nobody ever gets HIV from having blood drawn. It's probably never happened in an industrialized country, and only rarely elsewhere 20+ years ago when needles and syringes were re-used on different patients.
And there is definitely no risk just because the person drawing blood doesn't wear gloves. Health care providers wear gloves to protect themselves from infections carried by the patient, not primarily to protect the patient. And your worry about contact with other patients' blood makes no sense. If that were a risk, it would be the same with or without gloves.
So no risk at all. Don't worry about it.
And there is definitely no risk just because the person drawing blood doesn't wear gloves. Health care providers wear gloves to protect themselves from infections carried by the patient, not primarily to protect the patient. And your worry about contact with other patients' blood makes no sense. If that were a risk, it would be the same with or without gloves.
So no risk at all. Don't worry about it.
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