I was sitting in class today when I noticed that the person sitting to the left of me had two cuts on their right hand, the one closest to me. One was large and wide and looked scabed, on the nuckles, and the second was still wet with blood. I noticed that when she was raising her hand to speak, pulling papers out of her binder, or just writing/gesturing her hand with all the cuts was getting close to the left side of my head and its hair, by accident of course. I was wearing my hair sticking out to the sides and one time their hand, the back of it where the cuts were located, touched my hair. I know this becasue I felt it and the peron apologized. I am worried about HIV and Hep C. My concern is that some of the blood was transfered from her hand to my head. What should I do? Can the blood soak into my hair and stay there? Will a hor shower with shampoo completley clean my hair, or do I need to do something more drastic? Should I cut off the hair that touched the blood? Please help!
2007-02-01 00:01:54 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Infectious Diseases
stop freaking..aids and hep c are blood born meaning you both have to swap blood or fluids!!if you did not have sex or shoot up drugs together you are fine just take a shower
2007-02-01 00:12:01 · answer #1 · answered by lil pit cat 71 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You actual do not decide on to be aggravating. The HIV virus is amazingly fragile -- if it were on the wall lengthy adequate for the blood to dry, the virus ought to have died. even if that your moist hair did one way or the different "reactivate" the virus -- which, I assure you, is extremely not available -- you ought to ought to ought to have an open (as in at present bleeding) wound on your head to be in chance for an infection from a blood-bourne ailment. in case you nonetheless sense icky about probably having some different person's blood on your head, via all skill, take yet another bathe, yet even it really is unecessary. actual do not do something better drastic.
2016-12-03 07:46:40 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't worry about it at all.
2007-02-01 01:03:04 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋