she has spots on her face random, this girl hasnt had sex or anything no drugs nothing i am worried if the hospital used dirty needles
2006-07-22 09:54:47 · 7 answers · asked by Vanessa W 2 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ STDs
she went to this hospital who are racism against balcjk people which she is really worried now
2006-07-22 10:00:44 · update #1
she was crying so she didn't see if they used a clean needle or something
2006-07-22 10:29:26 · update #2
She has teenage spots, zits, a bit of acne - all of which are basically harmless. Tell her to eat more green vegetables and she will see the difference in a couple of weeks. There is not one chance in ten million that she has HIV - now tell her to stop worrying and start eating those vegetables.............
2006-07-22 09:59:42 · answer #1 · answered by thomasrobinsonantonio 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In medicine, you have to go first with what's the most obvious and common thing to happen, and then if it isn't it, you go looking for rarer diseases.
You'd have to be a terrible doctor if you tell a person who clearly has a cold that he has Tay-Sachs syndrome. Especially if that person isn't of Ashkenazi descent.
Go with the obvious, she probably has an allergic reaction to some unknown substance she got exposed to in the hospital. Ask her if she has allergies with cleaning products or latex or something like that first.
In a lesser probable scenario, she could have contracted some airborne disease in the hospital (heck, it's the only place you'd get Pseudomona aeruginosa bacteria). Has she ever had chickenpox or has she been vaccinated against it? The virus can be airborne and it's can become pretty serious if she contracted the disease being an adult.
It could be a bacterial skin infection like impetigo which can be easily treated. It's not as easy for someone to get HIV as people think, the virus is amazingly fragile when exposed outside in the enviroment. If she saw the needles being opened from sterile packages and they were only used on her, it would be a really crazy story if she somehow got HIV that way.
Plus, even if that could of happened (like 1 in a billion?), the virus doesn't show those kinds of symtoms that soon. It takes several days for the early symptoms to appear and it's generally a very nasty cold. Then you could spend over 5-6 years feeling fine until you start suffering from AIDS.
2006-07-22 17:20:48 · answer #2 · answered by Gata de Barrio 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think AIDS is the problem. She may need to be treated for anxiety. If she is honestly afraid that someone at a hospital is going to purposely infect her with HIV because she is African American then she has mental health issues and should seek treatment. I work for a company that has employees from all over the world. I have friends that are Syrian Muslims, Muslims from Iran, from Pakistan, and from Jordan. These are all people that are supposed to hate us if you listen to half the crap that is out there in the media. Sure we have occasional culture clashes when one person offends someone without meaning to etc but I can safely say that I don't know anyone who is evil, or who would want to hurt me. The point is that your friend should try to get to know some people of other races. I suppose it is possible that a racist white person could kill or harm her at some point in her life, but she is far far more likely to be killed in a car accident than by a hate crime. BTW - you may be surprised to know that most black murder victims (In the USA anyway) are killed by other African Americans, not by white people.
2006-07-23 11:38:07 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ooohh okay well i don't think so. Have you heard of stress..that's right worried about something like that when you haven't had sex or used drugs being beaten up wby your own mother who has a disease threatening to infect you time and time can give you stress trust me on that. and going to a hospital crying and you don't know if the nurse used clean syringe or purposely trying to infect you from that website you told me about can give you stress beyoung recognition ....
please take care of your friend and you, do't turn your back on her no one deserves what she's going through.
2006-07-22 18:03:51 · answer #4 · answered by kida_w 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, by 'spots' I'm going to assume that you're referring to lesions. So, to answer your question, no, lesions are not a sign of HIV. You develop lesions, or 'spots' once you actually developed AIDS.
I wouldn't worry.
2006-07-22 18:29:00 · answer #5 · answered by doubled254 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well..i wouldn't say so..but have it checked out
2006-07-22 17:11:23 · answer #6 · answered by wenkwank 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
go to a dematoligist then assume its HIV, if she did not take any risks to get it then why would she have it................
2006-07-22 16:59:47 · answer #7 · answered by Bear 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋