Patient's question:
Taking the child to the hair salon to get a haircut, the hairdresser's skills were poor, and the hair clippers scraped the child's skin, causing it to bleed. The hair clippers are shared. If there is HIV virus on them or if they were used on an HIV-positive person who also scraped the skin, what if blood containing HIV remains on the hair clippers? Could it infect the child through their rusty skin?Doctor's answer:
First, this HIV is an RNA virus that does not have its own living system and must rely on the energy of active cells to survive. After being separated from the body, due to the lack of energy supply and suitable environmental conditions such as temperature, the virus dies within minutes. In other words, if this razor has been used for half an hour before shaving a child, even if it has blood from an AIDS patient or the virus, it no longer has infectious activity at that time. This means that there is no possibility of transmission in such a situation, so you can rest assured.