Blood, Hair and HIV?

Question

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!

Answer 1

First of all, relax about HIV. The virus can't live long outside the human body.

Wash your hair. You'll be fine.

As an aside, you should stop wearing a hairdo so flipping huge that it intrudes on the space of your neighbors. It makes you look like an 80's hair band reject.

Put away the "Flock of Seagulls" CDs and get a decent haircut.

Answer 2

You can't catch AIDS or HIV from someone's blood touching your hair. Just wash your hair, take precautions on the blood going into your eyes (so I would suggest holding your head back as though you're looking at the ceiling) and just wash your hair. AIDS and HIV can only be exposed to another person through blood but only if it goes into an open wound, intercourse, saliva, bites and scratches opening up ones skin. Don't panic! If you feel that scared about it, then call your doctor and let him or her explain it to you. I'm sure you'll be fine!

Answer 3

Sigh, you're safe. Wash your hair. That isn't how HIV and hep C are transmitted. The blood has to come into contact with an open wound on your body.

Answer 4

As each body else reported, the possiblity is very very nearly non existent...regardless of the indisputable fact that, that is available to transmit the HIV virus via toothbrushes, floss and etc., yet provided that the guy contaminated makes use of that different merchandise on a reduce, scrape, or another wound. the different man or woman ought to grow to be contaminated via introducing that man or woman's blood to their very personal body via cuts (even tiny ones), sexual contact etc. except you've a reduce on your head interior a similar area the floss hit you and not in any respect a lot hair protecting that area, you shouldn't should be stricken. also, purely because the floss grow to be used via a dentist does not mean he/she did not have a reduce of their mouth that ought to are available in contact with the floss. you'll reduce their mouth, gums and etc with nutrition, starting up something with their mouth, a canker sore, slightly lip and etc. yet, again, it really is highly unlikey try to be uncovered to that virus contained in the form you defined.

Answer 5

Wash your hair and stop worrying petal!

Your hair is actually dead and not able to absorb anything back into your bloodstream. Shampoo companies would have you believe otherwise though!

If you had an open wound and asked your neighbour to squeeze a drop of his/her blood into it...then you would have been at risk of contracting any infection/virus he/she MAY have.

Answer 6

You do not have have to be concerned with absorption of blood through your hair..hair is dead after the scalp.be concerned only if you have open wounds on your scalp.A good cleaning of your scalp will do.I think I would have said something to the other student about keeping wounds covered due to bloodborne pathogens.....

Answer 7

No need to worry your fine unless her blood touched your blood you have nothing to worry about.