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Can STDs Be Transmitted Through Needle Prick Injury?
i have a question im a janitor in a retirement home and i was poked by a use insulin syringe while throwing away the garbage. i want to know do i have to worry about any sexual transmitted diseases like hiv? i was told that no one is the facility has any type of std, but i wanted know if i have any to worry about?
Tue, 9 Sep 2014
Hi,
Welcome to HCM.
All needle pricks are not necessarily infectious.
If the individual has any diseases transmitted through blood and body fluids like HIV, Hepatitis or Syphilis can be transmitted through needle prick, provided that if the individual has the infection or incubating the infection. But mostly these organisms are not viable outside the body or body fluids for not more than few seconds.
Now post exposure prophylaxis available to prevent such infection, if you take the prophylactic drugs within 72 hurs or earlier than this.
D S.Murugan
Welcome to HCM.
All needle pricks are not necessarily infectious.
If the individual has any diseases transmitted through blood and body fluids like HIV, Hepatitis or Syphilis can be transmitted through needle prick, provided that if the individual has the infection or incubating the infection. But mostly these organisms are not viable outside the body or body fluids for not more than few seconds.
Now post exposure prophylaxis available to prevent such infection, if you take the prophylactic drugs within 72 hurs or earlier than this.
D S.Murugan
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