[Question #11623] Follow-Up Regarding The Environment
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13 months ago
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Good evening and thank you for your time and expertise. I am returning to the forum hopefully for the final time for confirmation and to move past my irrational anxiety, for which I will be seeking help for.
1) Hepatitis C and HIV become NON-infectious once exposed to the environment. Therefore, if there happened to be blood on a cup from a food worker's hand and then someone were to drink from that cup, there would be NO risk of Hepatitis C or HIV.
2) In regards to therapeutic massage/soft tissue mobilization between a clinician and a patient: If the patient has any scratches/scrapes/small cuts/pimples/blisters/rashes even with a possible small amount of blood that touches the bare hand, bare wrist or bare arm of the clinician even if the clinician themselves also has any scratches/scrapes/etc... there would be NO risk of Hepatitis C or HIV.
Thank you for helping me move forward.
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13 months ago
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For clarification on #2... There would be NO risk of Hepatitis C or HIV for the CLINICIAN.
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13 months ago
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Referencing #2 again... I am extrapolating from an answer I received for a previous question in which I was told that two people fist bumping would NOT be a risk for Hepatitis C or HIV even if both people had lesions on their hands. Therefore, in scenario #2, the CLINICIAN would NOT be at risk for Hepatitis C or HIV.
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13 months ago
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Summary:
In scenario #1, there is NO risk for Hepatitis C or HIV for the person drinking from the cup.
In scenario #2, there is NO risk of Hepatitis C or HIV for the CLINICIAN, regardless of any potential blood.
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13 months ago
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I apologize for my typo. I meant to type...
In scenario #1, there is NO risk of Hepatitis C or HIV for the person drinking from the cup.
In scenario #2, there is NO risk of Hepatitis C or HIV for the CLINICIAN, regardless of any potential blood.
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13 months ago
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One additional remark regarding scenario #1:
Being that Hepatitis C and HIV become NON-infectious once exposed to the environment, if the person drinking from the cup had a small cut/scratch/scrape on the inside of their mouth/lip it would be irrelevant and there would still be NO risk of Hepatitis C or HIV.
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Edward W. Hook M.D.
13 months ago
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I'm not sure why you have returned to the Forum for your 4th time in the past two weeks. These questions are repetitive of the answers should have been apparent from your multiple prior interactions. As I said during the last interaction we had- "HIV as well as hepatitis C relatively hard to transmit. As you note, these viruses become non-infectious when they are outside the body and exposed to the environment. They are not transmitted by touching a spot where infectious material may have been ( I.e. a toilet seat, a counter top, etc.) and certainly are not transmitted through fist bumps, even if there are scratches or other open sores, present on either person or both persons fists. They are also never transmitted from person to person on a persons hands. ... Nothing you describe suggest any risk whatsoever for HIV or hepatitis C. I see no reason for concern and certainly no reason for testing."
Nothing has changed. Asking further "what if" or "what about if..." questions is a waste of your time and mine. Your inability to move forward suggests serious obsessional, OCD-type issues. Yo do not need to be returning to this forum with these sorts of questions. If they still trouble you, I strongly recommend you discuss your problems in moving forward with a trained therapist. I say this purely out of concern for you. EWH
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13 months ago
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Just to confirm: Nothing I have described in this question or any of my previous questions suggests any risk at all of Hepatitis C or HIV, correct?
Thank you and I will be seeking help for my mental health.
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Edward W. Hook M.D.
13 months ago
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Correct. EWH---