Feel safe but need assurance.

[potty008]

I went to take a blood test. I circled around the place 15-20 minutes and did not see anyone entered the clinic.
The clinician used her hand to touch around my arms to find my vein. I could not remeber she used alcohol cotton to clean afterward or not. (She should do it,I believe) Then she put alcohol cotton on the desk to inject me. Later she used the cotton to cover my wound. Then I saw a red dot close to area she placed the alcohol cotton on the desk.  The cotton is a kind of alcohol cotton on the box( no need to soak it with alcohol again.)   Do you think it's ok?


Do you think I am at risk for hiv?  Even she forgot to clean my arm after she touched it to find my blood line before injection,still no risk right?



Thank you so much!

[krasavitsa35]

Hello, I had a flu shot 3 days ago by a practitoner who wasn't using gloves while injecting the vaccine. Soon after the vaccine was injected I started bleeding, with her naked hands she tried to stop the blood by using cotton balls one after another, her fingers a portion of her hands were covered with my blood. What are the chances that she could infect me with hiv considering the fact that she injected this vaccine to other patients before me the exact same way? She was using a hand sanitizer in between patients. But, if some blood from other patients was still on her hands while she was giving me a shot and trying to wipe my blood away and mixed blood of others with mine, could there be a chance for infection passage? Thabk you!

[jstupid]

Yes you are fine, you don't get HIV from hand contact, and the needle is sterile.