Can I get HIV from a dentist or beauty salon
Health / / December 19, 2019
In Russia, more than a million people are HIV-positive, and it is only those who are aware of their status and is registered in the specialized medical centerStatistics AIDS Center. . Many have not yet realize that they are ill.
This is a real epidemic, so understandable fears. At school say that HIV is transmitted through blood and certain body fluids, you need to use condoms, and, of course, do not inject anything. But is it enough?
In the same schools since the days of my training run horror stories about contaminated needles that are specifically scatter in sandboxes angry addicts (I must say, the used syringes in the urban bush is not rarity). Adults in the sandbox are not as common, but no less afraid.
After all, HIV is transmitted through blood. It means any place where there is a blood - dangerous? For example, a dentist's chair or nail salon. You never know who was the master, then someone from the infected millions.
From edging manicure once and for all, I refused a few years ago, so the chance of catching something unpleasant was less. What is interesting, fear of contagion has not ceased. To give any rational explanation for this fear can not, therefore, simply an eagle eye watch every time that there is a master with the tools and drew with questions about how it all processed. By the way, to find a normal and responsible master, which does not clog the tool cleanliness - one more quest.
Lydia Suyagina
Try to figure out what to fear and what - is not necessary.
As the virus is transmitted
According to Rospotrebnadzor statistics, the most popular method of infection - non-sterile syringesAwareness and prevention of HIV infection. . In second place with a minimum margin - sexual way (in the world of the picture is different: it is sexually transmitted HIV oftenWHO Newsletter. ). Far fewer cases of HIV transmission from mother to child, if a pregnant woman does not receive therapy. And the rarest of cases - the infection in hospitals.
In this list, there is no separate dental clinics or nail salons. Information that someone has picked up the virus in ways that could not be found. But it is theoretically possible.
HIV - unstable virus outside the body perishes quickly. But in the drop, which has remained in the tip of the syringe, can last up to a week at room temperature, even if the blood has dried. In rare cases (if the blood was a lot of) HIV persists longer, but the amount of active particles decreases with each passing daySurvival outside the body. . It should be noted that the studies that examined the survivability of HIV were conducted in laboratories and blood initially applied with a high concentration of virus.
The virus is destroyed at high temperature (with heating to 60 ° C and especially at reflux it dies) but not afraid of cold.
That is, in order to HIV went to the more healthy person, you need a number of conditions:
- The tool, which will hurt a person's blood in large enough quantities.
- The high concentration of virus in the blood.
- Room temperature or cooler.
- Wound through which the blood gets to a healthy person.
These conditions exist in dentistry, and in the beauty salon and tattoo parlor. But in only one case: you've come to a place of disinfection and sterilization is not heard.
How to protect yourself from HIV
In the dentist's chair and used needles and all kinds of tools that come into contact with blood. According to the sanitary norms and rules everything that is not a one-off, should be disinfected, cleaned and sterilized. The clinic, which does not comply with these rules, will not receive a license and does not pass certification. At the tattoo parlor, a beauty studio and hairdressing work with the blood rule is not worse than in hospitalsSanPiN 2.1.2.2631-10. .
Understand how faithfully relating to the procedures difficult at the clinic, if you do not know by heart all the temperature regimes of processing tools. Take a look at the general impression: how clean the premises as disposable items, whether the office is equipped with a well. If it is very scary, ask your doctor how to handle tools.
It is not necessary to fall into paranoia, but good to remember that in addition to HIV, there are other infections that are transmitted through poorly treated tools. Hepatitis B and C, for example, more resistant than the immunodeficiency virus, they are more contagious.
Manicure or pedicure at the likelihood of HIV infection is low: not so serious cuts in these procedures. But even if you do not do manicure, attend only those salons in which to monitor the amount of tools and their treatment. This means that the master can not be one set all and that he unhesitatingly tell you how and what to sterilize the tweezers, scissors and thimbles.
The beauty is hard to be ill with HIV. Hepatitis, or a fungal infection more contagious. It is important that the cabin be sure to observe sanitary rules for processing: disinfection, cleaning and sterilization.
Young masters often neglected treatment rules because of the negligence and ignorance. So before you trust your health to the master, ask what solution he uses and where in the cabin in a drying cabinet.
Olga Aleinikova
Hygiene rules are simple: treat carefully to yourself and your health, do not go to questionable clinics and salons, do not be afraid to ask if you do not understand something. In the end, worry about your health - this is normal.
And hand over blood for HIV. Just not to worry.