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Question: im a volunteer in a hospital. i deliver food trays to the patients and pick them up. we have some aids patients in the hospital. could i catch aids and bring it home to my family
Answers: im a volunteer in a hospital. i deliver food trays to the patients and pick them up. we have some aids patients in the hospital. could i catch aids and bring it home to my family
The best way to prevent the spread of any disease is to educate yourself about it. The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is only spread through direct contact of body fluids. This means that it is spread through blood, semen, vaginal secretions and, in very rare cases, tears.
HIV is not the same thing as AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome). AIDS is a terms used when someone's immune system has been destroyed by HIV; usually after several years of having the virus living in the body. There is special criteria that a person with HIV has to meet in order to be classified as having AIDS. Most HIV carriers are otherwise healthy people. In fact, some people don't even realize they have HIV until they are tested.
You cannot spread HIV through touching, hugging, coughing, sneezing, breathing, drinking/eating after someone else or kissing (unless the person has an open sore in the mouth or lips).
HIV can be spread through unprotected sex, contact with blood and blood products, sharing needles with others, sharing razors with others, and ingestion of body fluids.
You should not feel scared about getting HIV from the patients at the hospital. I recommend looking up some websites that further explain the virus and how it can be spread.
Not unless you come in direct contact with the bodily fluid...blood most importantly
you also need to remember that it has to come in contact with YOUR bodily fluids as well
then you would have to have it and then come in contact with your families bodily fluid through your bodily fluid.
This is not a high risk situation at all
good luck and take care
no, only if your you swap bodily fluid with these patients, blood or semen. just use care in protecting yourself, wearing gloves if needed, bandaids over broken skin that could come in contact with them. washing and sanitizing is also important.
Delivering food trays shouldn't carry any risk at all.
If you are concerned, wear gloves while picking up the food trays. There is practically no risk as such also.
Hope it helps.
All the best!
There are standards for infection control in every hospital. You should be gloved, when delivering the food trays~~if this is part of the food servers policy, or the hospitals.
There really isn't any way transmission of HIV can take place, unless there is an open wound, or needle-stick. Saliva, (you need about a gallon to be ingested.)
What I would be more concerned with, working in any hospital setting, would be a Staph infection. There is high incidence of this, along with colds & flu.
As long as the Hospital is following the Standards for infection Control, you should do your job without worry. It's a wonderful thing to be volunteering in a hospital~~I've done so myself, and you'll find it is rewarding in many ways, beyond looking good on a resume.
Good luck,
and enjoy.
No, honey, not really. the AIDs virus is fragile and doesn't last long in the outside world. It also needs direct contact with an opening in your skin or thru mucus membranes, like your mouth nose eyes, etc,. simply wash your hands, and see if you can wear vinyl gloves at work, and wash your hands again after removing the gloves. Good luck and Bless your sweet heart.