
What Causes Pimples All Over The Body Along With Dark Circles Around The Eyes?

I was at a friends house whose sister had been a drug user. She hugged me. I noticed she had some scabs and pimples that had scabbed over. If one of them touched my eye during the hug could I get infected. If there were small amounts of blood on the pimples scabs or skins that I didn't notice and it got in my eye could that infect me. Or because it was outside the body would it be unable to infect.
1. I do have allergy eyes and they get puffy and watery, with large dark circles and puffy eyelids.
2. In researching this I was told that even if there was blood it is not the same as a blood splash exposure in a medical setting because one if there was blood it would already be out side the body and unable to infect, a very small amount not enough to infect, and lacked the force of a true blood splash.
3. So the scab itself couldn't be infective because the blood was dead and already exposed to air, and if there was blood it would be outside the body and exposed to air.
I want to reiterate I didn't see any blood, and I am not sure if anything touched my eye or even around my eye. I am just concerned, probably a lot overly concerned because I got a really bad cold this week (started about 4 days ago) (Nsal congestion, coughing, PND and mild sore throat) it was concerned I could have contracted something from this incident (like ARS this; incident happened @4 weeks ago so the timing could be right) However i have NO Fever, rash or anything else that would look like ARS.
Thanks in advance
A viral common cold
Detailed Answer:
Hello and thank you for asking in HCM
I have gone carefully through your concern and i can understand your situation.
According to the history you provide there is no possibility for you to have been infected from here given the fact that that there was no blood but even it was the amount is very very small and dead, to cause the infection itself.
On the other hand if the substances are *outside the body* it means that their potentiality to penetrate in another organism is lost.
ARS itself is observed at the stage of disease when HIV-1 first disseminates throughout the body of newly infected individuals.
Your case is not fortunately one of them believe me
Your actual situation is a common viral infection that will last a maximum of one week.
So do not worry so much.Be careful during this time and take a lot of liquids,have a rest,and painkillers (if needed)
Regards
Feel free to ask me again
DR.Jolanda


Nothing else to do
Detailed Answer:
Hi again
Yes absolutely yes
You don't need to do anything else (like tests or eexaminations)
It is just a common viral situation
Regards
Dr.Jolanda


Sorry another question. I referee wrestling when keeping a wrestler from going out of bounds I scratched him. I didn't see any blood but he had an old scratch on his arm with dried blood. If my fingernail scratched that old scratch could I get infected.I didn't see any blood on my fingernail, maybe a small piece of something black. or under it, nor did I see any cuts under my fingernail. I cleaned it with hand sanitizer about 10 minutes later when I got off the mat(because there was no immediate access to soap and water.) and later dipped my finger in alcohol and then washed it
when I got home I had my wife look at my finger and under my finger nail she didn't see any cuts.
1. would scratching a dry scratch (that had dried blood on it, albeit small amount) lead to me getting infected
2. Could the nailbed be a means for hiv or hep to enter the body even with no visible cuts or breaks are there micro breaks that cant be seen with the human eye
3. I read that hand sanitizer can actually increase the risk of hiv infection because it dries the skin. Does that apply to hands or when people use it in the wrong place (ie the genitals)
Do I have an HIV or Hep risk from this
No you do not have neither one nor the other diseases
Detailed Answer:
Hello there
I read carefully your prescription about what had happened exactly
1.Dried blood is dead blood (with dead cells and can not be infected anymore)
2.If there are no visible or non visible wounds (entrance door in the blood stream) no possibility for HIV or HEP
3.Yes sanitizer can dry the skin but if there is no entrance door the infection can not get in blood stream
At last no you do not have neither one nor the other diseases
I hope to have been helpful for you
Wishes
Dr.Jolanda


If there was a little fresh blood on the previous wound that wasn't obvious would that be a risk or would it be dead because it was outside the body on the surface of the old wound
Just to verify the nsilbed is non permeable
Thanks you're great
sanitizer the right thing
Detailed Answer:
Hi again
Yes you have done the right thing with the sanitizer.
If it waas blood it was outside the body and in this condition it can not infect because the organism itself has its protective ability to fight and to eliminate the infective agents from the abroad.
Wishes


no risk
Detailed Answer:
Hi
No i don't think that this might be a risk for infection
Don't think more about it please,forget it.
Regards

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