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HIV cut

Hi all . Quick question , I had a cut on my had covered with a bandaid. The cut was a about 2 days old . I was carrying something that slipped from my hand and sliced my skin as a dropped  it . Not to deep but enough to have a skin flap and something that looks like a scrape. At any rate after my sons hair cut I shook hands with the stylist and she pressed right on the bandaid for a brief moment. Say she had a Knick or cut on her hand that was not covered or a fresh one that got underneath my bandaid and in to my cut , would there be any risk ? The cut in on an area on my hand where if I lift my thumb the bandaid rises a bit. I will my cut was a moist on top and scabbing completely yet .....thx and if no risk why .
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I will back up everyone elses answer for you since you still seem to question it. you are at zero risk. if you both had little cuts, zero risk. yours was covered anyways. even if it was not, zero risk. you're also just making this up in theory anyways, your anxiety or paranoia is making you assume they had a cut in the first place with absolutely no reason to believe that. please try to relax and move on from this.
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Thanks a lot. I appreciate your time to chime in. I made the mistake by going on the Internet and we know how that story goes.
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I'm just backing up the statement that this is zero risk. HIV is spread by unprotected vaginal or anal sex or sharing of IV drug needles.  Air inactivates the virus.  This was not a risk in any way.
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Sorry to keep asking another question. Before I posted this question I read other posts to see if I can get an answer. One thing that has been pretty consistent is the size of the cut does matter. For example if a cut is very deep it provides access to the bloodstream and certain cells which are only deep inside the body. My question is being that this was a little more than a scrape  does it provide access. I tried to describe it as best I could By stating it was more than a scrape and a little bit deeper but it did not require stitches and stopped bleeding within a few minutes.  Imagining slicing into a cheese block on an angle it starts off very shallow but goes a little bit deeper . The cut was still moist had some dry scabbing around it but not completely scabbed over yet. So what you were saying is that even if the person  was actively bleeding that blood has already been exposed  To the air thus unable to infect? So for example if somebody has a cut that just happened in the blood is still on their hands that blood has already left the body and cannot infect?  I understand if HIV was this easily transmitted probably everybody in the world would have it because I believe we all at some point have had had a cut on on hand and is probably coming to contact with somebody else’s cut .
Sounds like you were not in immediate need for medical intervention or else death would surely follow due to massive blood loss. That's the only type of cut that would even remotely be a possible risk.  The type of cut you're on about doesn't even meet the qualifications of a minor risk because yours is a not at all zero risk, period.
Sounds good I get it now now risk ...thanks all for your answered enjoy your day :-)
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No it has nothing to do with the size of the cut. HIV isn’t capable of being transmitted that way. HIV is inactivated when it comes into contact with air
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No risk. Conventionally, the only way that HIV spreads is through unprotected sex or needles. Shaking hands with someone briefly is not a risk
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Thank you for your quick reply . Even with the presence of cuts there still is no risk ? I am assuming there is no risk because the cut is not deep enough and there was not really a presence of  a lot of blood ? Also would you say that once a cut stops bleeding that it pretty much has sealed off and nothing can enter the bloodstream ? From what I read a scrape or small cut not requiring stitches is just not deep enough. As I described above my cut was like a slice of the skin that was more than a scrape but deep enough where I need nothing more than a bandaid.
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