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Q: Am I At Risk??

asked by: worriedwell on August 19th, 2004

New User

Please help??
M I at risk?

1) I wanna know wether kissing with a hiv postive person for 2 seconds lip to lip and not french kissing and if it was a dry kiss can cause u infection.
I kissed a girl of unknown status and m freaking now. May be her blood from her teeth came in contact with my gums and I got infected ...Please help!!!!
2) I am working in a departmental store with the petrol station.
There a lady customer came in asking for band aid for her open would profously bleeding. And I being and customer service manager. Went out to help her and tried to put band aid with bare hands with full care so that no blood from her wound can touch my hands... While washing my hands I realised that my hand were dry and there was bit of dry cracks on my tip of my fingers, which were no open cracks or painful was just due to dryness as u can see sometimes in winter under ur palm, then the thing which is worrying me is there might be a touch of a drop of her blood from her wound which must have touched my finger tips right on the cracks. And must have went in my blood stream. I m worried please help!!!

Please help!!!!

Replies(2)

paulv

replied on August 22nd, 2004

Experienced User

Very Low Risk Sexual Behavior

First, there has to be exchange of bodily fluids for you catch or pass on hiv/aids.
Both cases you mentioned don't really meet this criteria. As women are much less likely to have hiv/aids than a guy, the risk is corresspondingly much much less. You have no information that either lady had hiv/aids, so the odds of getting hiv/aids are like one in a billion. Astronomically high.

Still the odds do get little higher every time you get covered with blood.
So do keep your hands clean or covered whenever possible.

sandyallen

replied on August 22nd, 2004

Extremely eHealthy

Keep some disposable gloves on hand as there is always a chance! Hand washing is very important. I always carry the anti-bacteria hand cleaner with me and it has moisturisers in it. If your company will not furnish a first aid kit(which they should) make one up for youself, it is not that expensive, I have one in my car and one in my purse, because of my patients.
Sincerely,
sandy

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