How Likely Is It To Get HIV From Blood Splash

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Blood Splash to the eye from an HIV patient

I was day 8 on my treatment when I e-mailed. I was trying so hard to find ways and means to stay on it. I stopped taking the Reglan the following day beacause of its side effects and was vomiting at 2:30 in the morning by Wednesday. I called the...

Response from Gerald Pierone, M.D.

AIDS Research and Treatment Center of the Treasure Coast

This response is 3 weeks after your post so I trust you are returning to normal. I don't think that you made the wrong decision to stop therapy. Intolerable side effects are just that and you can't continue prophylaxis at any expense.... Read more »

Blood Splash to the eye from an HIV patient.

I was starting an IV for a patient when upon pulling out the cannula (good blood return but could... Read more »

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Risk of transmission during laparoscopic splash in hiv positive pt

What is the risk for surgeon during laparoscopic splash.Recenly Iwas doing laparoscopy since my... 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 »

HIV and the blood supply

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply

Recently I was admitted to the hospital for an injury and had to receive blood because of it. That was a little over 3 months ago. Although I do realize that the blood supply rarely contains infected blood, I did get an HIV test anyway. When I... Read more »

HIV in dry blood

Posted by Anonymous, 3 Replies

Does anyone have an idea how long HIV can live outside of the body in blood? Is it 5 min? Is it one hr?

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What's it gonna be like?

Posted by Anonymous, 2 Replies

Hello everybody. I'm writing from Europe, Italy. I'm 28 and I was diagnosed with HIV just two weeks ago; I didn't expect it because I've had no symptoms so far. It was like a fist in my chest, my mind was reeling as I felt like falling from the 7th... Read more »

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