hiv

[baremission]

last night i was in a club and this guy had passed out or something so people were carrying him off the dancefloor but as he came past me he was bleeding and dripped blood on my leg.
I wiped it off with my hand but then this morning saw that i have a cut on my finger....can i get HIV from that?
thanks

[Beads]

Hi baremission - I am no dr but you would be mighty unlikely/unlucky is my guess. You'd have to be bleeding and mix your blood with his blood...and he'd have to have it in the first place. Did you have a big cut on your hand? Was it bleeding?

[Beads]

ps - that is exactly the same kind of thing I would worry about too so i do sympathise with you. But if you're anything like me you worry at the drop of a hat... :)

[meglet]

Why not ring NHS Direct if you are worried, they'll tell you if its likely you have been exposed. Number is 0845 4647.

[baremission]

Its a little cut on my finger, like a paper cut, i dont think it would have been bleeding.
thanks

[Beads]

if it's a paper cut then i personally think you have nothing to worry about baremission. You don't even know if this person has hiv...I think you've over worried here but if it puts your mind at rest you could call the number that meglet's provided. :)

[taliesin238]

The HIV virus dies as soon as it hits the air so i was told.

[dave1969]

I can guess how you can be feeling the chances are very unlikely....
Even having sex with and aids Carrier doesn't automatically mean you will get aids..
If its on your mind have an aids test there is a couple of draw back...
One it doesn't always show straight away so you might have to wait a month or two..
The other once you have a test you have to declare this on certain forms..
And the last how would you cope if you had it .. If your worried now then well i can guess how you would be if it came out positive..
I personally would just forget about it

[baremission]

thanks for all your posts...and no...i know nothing about the guy but i am being oversafe/over cautious/overreacting!

thanks...ill have a think but i think ill just leave it...it seems unlikely really and probably just an irrational fear.

[Ice.Maiden]

I used to visit people with AIDS, and from what doctors've told me, you could only pick up the HIV virus in the situation you described if the guy's blood or other body fluids'd come into contact with yours. Highly unlikely you've got anything - and that's even if the poor guy was infected in the first place.

[~max~]

I understand your fear hun, same thing happened to me a few years ago. It was xmas eve, and me and my then bf were coming back from a pub in edinburgh. I saw a young guy lying on the pavement, so I insisted we had a closer look, and it turned out he had smashed his head on the pavement and was bleeding profusely. So I kneeled down and pressed my cardigan (that I took off even if it was freezing cold! lol) against his head wound and held his hand while my bf went to call an ambulance. I ended up with blood all over me, and on my hands. I made sure I had a test 3 months later, jus in case, but it was unlikely to be positive anyway. I'd have had to be bleeding myself for any contamination to happen, provided he even was a carrier!

[Ice.Maiden]

Infected blood COULD enter someone else via a cut, but it'd have to be an open one I think.

[shivvy]

For the virus to enter the body it has to be introduced and by that I mean that it has to be 'pushed' into the body ie via sexual contact or intravenously. You could be covered with infected blood but unless you have a wound which is sucking in, as far as I know there is no way for the virus to enter. Even if you had an open and bleeding wound and you put it next to the bleeding wound of someone who had HIV/AIDS, it still isn't likely to enter your body because the flow of fluids was 'out' of your body and not 'in'.