HIV Question

[Moso13]

I'm in college so I have to use public restrooms all the time which makes me really nervous. There was a tiny bit of dried. blood on the toilet seat and I wiped if off with a tissues. And the cut is on the back of my finger so I don't think it touched anything. But it may have gotten close. And then what if when I opened the door there was blood on the handle and it happened to get into my cut. Could I get hiv from this?

[Fishmanpa]

Could I get hiv from this?

No.... No "what ifs", "buts" or anything else... just "No".

Positive thoughts

[Mommyof2boys]

Blood and bodily fluids have to be in a completely saline or contained environment to keep the virus alive. I used to worry about stuff like that but it is impossible for it to be transferred that way.

[GlassPinata]

HIV is a fragile virus which cannot live outside the body for more than a minute or so (unless in the vacuum of a syringe barrel, hence why needle-sharing is high risk).
Unless the other woman sat and bled on your toilet seat 30 seconds before you sat down, then no.
You said the blood was "dried".
Dried blood on a surface = no HIV.
Plus, do you know how rare it would be for a college-aged female to even have HIV??

No. Just no.

best wishes.

[Moso13]

Blood and bodily fluids have to be in a completely saline or contained environment to keep the virus alive. I used to worry about stuff like that but it is impossible for it to be transferred that way.

How do you keep yourself from worrying about it? I have really bad anxiety.

[Mommyof2boys]

The only way I get over one anxiety is by adopting a new one lol but also by getting tested. Of course when I was the most worried about it I was having unprotected sex with multiple partners which is an actual risk factor. But lo and behold I have never contracted it. If you are sexually active you should be tested every once in a while anyway just to be responsible so getting tested would be killing two birds with one stone-- to alleviate your fears (because it will be negative) and just because it is a routine test anyway.

[Moso13]

Can you get it from brushing hands with someone? I was handing my card to the cashier and I noticed the she had a cut/ scrape on her hand and I have a couple cuts on my hand. If my cut happened to touch hers could I get HIV from that?

[PASchoolSyndrome]

No.

Unless you both had open wounds and chose to play blood brothers/sisters and spread blood around with each other, and even then the chance is miniscule, you have no chance.

[Phuzella]

No

[Clydesdale Epona]

Nope.
you'll be fine x

All the best