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HIV infection - very unusual situation
Hi,
As far as I can imagine I think I had a pretty unusual situation that happened to my family a week ago on Sunday. While taking a walk in a park, my 5 year old son picked up a beer can from lawn (as kids obviously have to touch everything...). He wanted to throw it away to trashcan, however before he manage to do so - a white liqued spilled out from the can all over his pents. At first I was sure these were some beer leftovers, however once we started to clean his pents with my wife, it turned out it was much more thick & and at this point we smelled it - as you probably guessed it by now it was most likely semen. We threw out can to trashcan and headed directly to nearby bathroom, where we cleaned our hands & changed our sons pents (we had 2nd one in car). We also had some antibacterial gel, which we used. However after some hours passed, I realised I had some minor skin peeled off my finger. It wasn't an open, bleeding wound, however it was irritated/red/soft (reacted in slight iching pain when later on sprayed with alcohol) - not sure how to describe it well. My wife also had a cut on her hand - much bigger (1cm), however 2 days old fully closed. My son didn't have any open wound/skin irritations.
Now... taking into consideration worst possible scenario, in which it was in fact fresh semen, and it was hiv infected and it got in touch with all described above areas - is there a chance we could have been infected? I did fair amount of research within past days and in theory as far as I can see I shouldn't worry, however I can't find a definite answer. Is it possible we could have get infected, just like one can when infected semen gets in direct contact with mucous membranes of the vagina or rectum. My fear starts to grow, and I am slowly getting into a paranoia mode. Please help :)
Bests,
Matt
As far as I can imagine I think I had a pretty unusual situation that happened to my family a week ago on Sunday. While taking a walk in a park, my 5 year old son picked up a beer can from lawn (as kids obviously have to touch everything...). He wanted to throw it away to trashcan, however before he manage to do so - a white liqued spilled out from the can all over his pents. At first I was sure these were some beer leftovers, however once we started to clean his pents with my wife, it turned out it was much more thick & and at this point we smelled it - as you probably guessed it by now it was most likely semen. We threw out can to trashcan and headed directly to nearby bathroom, where we cleaned our hands & changed our sons pents (we had 2nd one in car). We also had some antibacterial gel, which we used. However after some hours passed, I realised I had some minor skin peeled off my finger. It wasn't an open, bleeding wound, however it was irritated/red/soft (reacted in slight iching pain when later on sprayed with alcohol) - not sure how to describe it well. My wife also had a cut on her hand - much bigger (1cm), however 2 days old fully closed. My son didn't have any open wound/skin irritations.
Now... taking into consideration worst possible scenario, in which it was in fact fresh semen, and it was hiv infected and it got in touch with all described above areas - is there a chance we could have been infected? I did fair amount of research within past days and in theory as far as I can see I shouldn't worry, however I can't find a definite answer. Is it possible we could have get infected, just like one can when infected semen gets in direct contact with mucous membranes of the vagina or rectum. My fear starts to grow, and I am slowly getting into a paranoia mode. Please help :)
Bests,
Matt
No risk because HIV can't survive outside the body,it becomes inactive and therefore unable to infect.
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