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HIV/AIDs?
So, about a day ago I felt this pain in my index finger at work and I saw it was a tiny brownish line in my finger. I’m not sure where it came from but every time I brush my finger against something it hurt it feels like a splinter. So, when I got home I went to remove the splinter with a nail clipper but before I poured cleansing alcohol on the nail clipper and my finger. When I went to clip into my finger I saw a little bit of dried blood on the clipper. It was a dark red. My finger wasn’t bleeding or anything because I hadn’t got inside of my finger to the point where it would start bleeding but it was someone else’s blood. Am I at risk for HIV? I’m so paranoid.
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HIV is caused by a virus. It can spread through sexual contact, shooting of illicit drugs or use of shared needles, and contact with infected blood. It also can spread from parent to child during pregnancy, childbirth or breastfeeding. The likelihood of contracting the virus through the use of nail clippers would be unlikely; however, it also depends on where the nail clippers that were used came from and if they were used by an infected person. If these are nail clippers from your own home with no known infected person having used them, you would not be at risk. Hygiene is always recommended before and after whenever you have blood or body fluids present and/or the potential for opening of the skin to remove a foreign body such as a sliver. Get Outlook for iOShttps://aka.ms/o0ukef
Could be times or referred symptom from interphalageal joint re possible degenerative change in the joint