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paranoia86

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Joined: 02 Mar 2007
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Worried Please Anwser My Question (hiv From Blood?)
Posted: 03-05-07 13:00pm

Hi

See I develope this phobia since I started at this nursing home see this man was bleeding all over his arm and I had lifted him up not realizing that he was bleeding up under his arm, I had on only one glove and I had took it off I was moving so fast that I dont even remeber washing my hands good I ask the nurse do he have anything and she said no you don't have anything to woory about. But now I am so traumatized that I don't like to touch nothing everything I touch I think it probably has blood on it and I work at a fast food restrauant and you know that you have to work with customers I don't even like to collect money from them an when I'm handing them something I don't like for them to touch my hand or I will freak out, and sometimes I think what if some was on my hand and I didnt know it I am paranoid all the time now.
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Llewellyn

Extremely EHEALTHy
Joined: 21 Jan 2007
Posts: 1743
Location: NY

Posted: 03-05-07 15:57pm

Your skin protects you from HIV/AIDS as well as all kinds of other nasty stuff. HIV/AIDS is usually transmitted through sex or needle sharing. Very few people get it from just touching someone. For that to happen, the person you are touching has to be HIV positive (which is a minority population to begin with), then they have to have a cut or something for blood to get through, and you also have to have a cut or something for their blood to get through. If you do not have any cuts, then there is no way for anything to get through.

Be careful when working in the nursing home, wear gloves, and put a bandage on any cuts that you may have just in case, but it isn't really anything that you have to constantly worry about. People in nursing homes are having their health monitored, so if they had anything serious like HIV, the staff would probably be aware of it.
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