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IS THERE ANY RISK SHOULD I TAKE PEP
IS THERE ANY RISK SHOULD I TAKE PEP
Yesterday I went to a barbershop to cut my hair; I sat down waiting for a barbershop owner to complete haircutting of a certain Gail aged around 13 years. After serving her I waited for about four to five minutes, before he started attending me , He took the same shelving machine he used to the Gail to start cutting my hair but before he started he cleaned the machine with a piece of cloth and he also put some oil on the machine the whole process took almost seven minutes, then he started shaving me after another 3 minutes accidentally the machine cut my forehead and there were some bleeding, before I was attended I did not notice any blood from previous customer on her head and on the machine and I don’t know her HIV status. So my question is assuming that on the previous customer there were some blood and after ten minutes he used his machine on me Can I be infected from HIV from this barbershop episode or by ten minutes and the heat of Shelving machine HIV can be died ? . Do I need to take PEP? should I wait for three months for HIV test please assist me
Yesterday I went to a barbershop to cut my hair; I sat down waiting for a barbershop owner to complete haircutting of a certain Gail aged around 13 years. After serving her I waited for about four to five minutes, before he started attending me , He took the same shelving machine he used to the Gail to start cutting my hair but before he started he cleaned the machine with a piece of cloth and he also put some oil on the machine the whole process took almost seven minutes, then he started shaving me after another 3 minutes accidentally the machine cut my forehead and there were some bleeding, before I was attended I did not notice any blood from previous customer on her head and on the machine and I don’t know her HIV status. So my question is assuming that on the previous customer there were some blood and after ten minutes he used his machine on me Can I be infected from HIV from this barbershop episode or by ten minutes and the heat of Shelving machine HIV can be died ? . Do I need to take PEP? should I wait for three months for HIV test please assist me
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ONE, the virus is very very fragile and cannot maintain its infectiousness outside of the host (the body). Therefore, that makes transmission via contact with environmental surfaces impossible.
Secondly, there has to be a LARGE amount of blood to constitute a "blood to blood" type of risk. There also has to be a SIGNIFICANT, DEEP injury, to allow the virus to gain access to the bloodstream, which it HAS to do to cause infection.
You have nothing at all to worry about. You didn't have an HIV risk...you don't need nPEP, or testing.