Thank you for your question.<\/p>\n
It is extremely unlikely a child would have poked you with a needle and you would definitely know about it if they had.<\/p>\n
So yes you are being overly worried and paranoid about this.<\/p>\n
Even if (a big if) this did happen then the likelihood that this would transmit HIV is again very, very small.<\/p>\n
If you are still worried then go for an HIV test. A fourth generation test, will be conclusive for 95% of infections, 4 weeks after an exposure. A test after 12 weeks is more than 99.99% conclusive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hi HIV i-Base,<\/p>\n
Many thanks for your answer before.<\/p>\n
I was in a store the other day and a little boy poked something into my leg, now it could have been anything pen, toys, etc I know its crazy to think he would have poked me with a needle but the street was dirty and so were the shops.<\/p>\n
I looked at many websites and they say a needle poke itself won’t cause transmission but it has to be injected now I am being completly paranoid but if I was injected I would feel it would I not?<\/p>\n
What are your thoughts on HIV transmission through a poke?<\/p>\n
I have looked at your testing page and it kind of agrees with another website, a test after 14-16 days is reassuring so I plan to get tested on the 18 day then sollow it up with a 31 day test.<\/p>\n
Please advise. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-hiv-testing","category-hiv-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24428,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2888\/revisions\/24428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}