RESPECTED DOCTOR,
RECENTLY I VISITED A LAB TO GET MY MALARIAL TEST DONE, BUT I NOTICED THAT THE LAB TECHNICIAN HAD FRESH BLOOD STAINS ON HIS GLOVES WHEN HE INSERTED A NEW BUTTERFLY NEEDLE INTO MY VEIN. HE HAD OPENED THE NEW NEEDLE AND UNWINDED THE PLASTIC TUBE WITH THOSE BLOOD STAINED GLOVES. ALSO THE TIP OF THE NEEDLE HAD TOUCHED THE PLASTIC TUBE BEFORE HE INSERTED THE SAME INTO MY VEIN..I AM VERY MUCH CONCERNED AND SCARED THAT IF THOSE BLOOD STAINS ON HIS GLOVES CARRIED HIV GERMS THEN CAN I ACQUIRE HIV GERMS THRU THIS MODE. PLEASE LET ME KNOW THAT WHAT SHOULD I DO? IS THERE A NEED TO GET MYSELF TESTED. WHICH TEST DO I HAVE TO GO FOR? I SINCERELY NEED HELP AND AM SCARED TO DEATH.
2006-11-24 23:45:29 · 6 answers · asked by harshaddsh 1 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Infectious Diseases
you need to report this to the lab Director,never be afraid to tell health care workers to wash their hands /change gloves you really must watch out for yourself and your health in dealing with any health care system
2006-11-25 00:24:33 · answer #1 · answered by MJ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not a doctor but I do know that it is extremely hard to get infected that way. Why would the technician not change gloves? If you are really scared, in a couple of weeks go and get an HIV test. Don't beat yourself up over it though. This is the problem with being scared with thinking you are sick, specially with HIV. Since HIV takes 3-4 weeks to manifest itself in a blood test, it could drag you down mentally if you let it bother you. Like I said, I wouldn't let it bother you. Just do the right thing, like everyone should anyway, and get tested in a couple of weeks, 3 months, 6 months. If you don't have anything show up, you are fine.
Don't be scared though. Being scared is your worst enemy. You will think you have things when you don't. Best thing to do is get a good understanding from a health care professional about this. Make sure you are calm and not fearful when trying to understand.
2006-11-25 00:57:32 · answer #2 · answered by comn8u 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am no doctor but while your concern for the unhygenic condition of the compounder who injeted you is quite understandable and you may stand the danger of contamination rest assured it would not be AIDs,
>HIV, the virus responsible for AIDS, is an enveloped virus. That means it'ssurrounded by a lipid membrane. In other words, it's wearing a coat of thesame material that surrounds living cells. That's sturdy enough inside abody, but not outside in the rest of the world. If the virus should be coughed into the air, or spilled onto a surface like a toilet seat, it would not survive long enough to infect anybodymust have been(provided it was AIDs virus)long dead.AIDS is certainly a dangerous virus but it does not get you because you sneeze.
By all means lodge a complaint with the proper authoritiies agaist the doctor and also get yourself thoroughly tested but don't be down with AIDS before confirming it.
2006-11-25 00:22:29 · answer #3 · answered by Prabhakar G 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
report him to the society for surgeons and pysiains he contaminated the needle putting u at risk and get tested for ummediatly for hepititious and hiv
2006-11-24 23:51:32 · answer #4 · answered by Elaine F 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You should report him and if this should ever happen again open your mouth and say something! Tell them to stop and get clean gloves, they have tons of them for that reason.
2006-11-24 23:57:16 · answer #5 · answered by Shari 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You should have ask him bout it. Report the lab tech, it's not a joke.
2006-11-24 23:59:47 · answer #6 · answered by onin1974 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋