Blood Splash Worried I Have AIDS

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Safe practices after blood splash

Hey Doc,My wife is a nurse and was splashed last week with HIV positive blood, with a few drops to the face - one landing on her eye and one landing on her lips. It was cleaned right away and she was put on medicine - Kaletra and one of the others....

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hello, Dale.When, if and how you have sex with your wife while she's on PEP is up to you, not me. Her HIV-acquisition risk is extremely low based on the information provided. Post-PEP testing guidelines recommend HIV-antibody testing at... Read more »

blood splash into eye

I am a resident physician working in the ER when got blood splash into my eye. I was stitching a... Read more »

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Blood splash

Six years ago,I was doing my clinical ride alongs on a city medic. One of the calls was for a sick... Read more »

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Blood splash risk?

Posted by lizzy, 1 Reply

So I am probably worrying over nothing. I work in a lab and felt very stupid as was not wearing gloves at the time. I was uncapping blood samples and whilst doing so a couple of drops of serum (blood) flicked onto my thumb. I washed it thoroughly... Read more »

What are you worried about today?

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply

OK - so we are all smart enough to know how HIV is transmitted. But yet we still worry about casual contact, like:
1) "thinking" you stepped on a needle - you would KNOW!
2) stepping on a nail
3) splashing toilet water
4) Thinking Nurse using dirty... Read more »

PLEASE i am worried sick

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply

my question is this, i know that HIV is found in blood and that it cannot survive long outside the human body but could HIV infected blood remain infectious and therefore have the potential to be transmitted to an uninfected person in a substance... Read more »

blood-to-blood exposure?

Posted by paranoid_android, 2 Replies

Please help me,
A friend of mine volunteers and looks after AIDS orphans. She also French (deep) kisses lots of people on a frequent basis. She also chews her fingers until the point where they bleed slightly.
Yesterday she playfully wrestled me and I... Read more »

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