Hello ,i have a question about nail scratching,I was in a bus and a girl was popping her pimple ,i saw that pimple bled.suddenly the bus braked and the girl who I mentioned scratched me by heir nails and i think there was fresh blood under her nails.a layer of my skin was peeled completely as size as a pea,and looked like a shallow hole (i think had 1 mm depth) and bled about 3 drops and became red and had irritation. But after a few minutes my wound stop bleeding.i washed my wound with mineral water that i had by myself.after that i saw colorless liquid on my wound.assuming there was fresh blood under her nails and she scratched me with above situation,is there any risk for hiv amd hep c?should i get tested??

Home / Answered Questions / Hello ,i have a question about nail scratching,I was in a bus and a girl was popping her pimple ,i saw that pimple bled.suddenly the bus braked and the girl who I mentioned scratched me by heir nails and i think there was fresh blood under her nails.a layer of my skin was peeled completely as size as a pea,and looked like a shallow hole (i think had 1 mm depth) and bled about 3 drops and became red and had irritation. But after a few minutes my wound stop bleeding.i washed my wound with mineral water that i had by myself.after that i saw colorless liquid on my wound.assuming there was fresh blood under her nails and she scratched me with above situation,is there any risk for hiv amd hep c?should i get tested??

Hello ,i have a question about nail scratching,I was in a bus and a girl was popping her pimple ,i saw that pimple bled.suddenly the bus braked and the girl who I mentioned scratched me by heir nails and i think there was fresh blood under her nails.a layer of my skin was peeled completely as size as a pea,and looked like a shallow hole (i think had 1 mm depth) and bled about 3 drops and became red and had irritation. But after a few minutes my wound stop bleeding.i washed my wound with mineral water that i had by myself.after that i saw colorless liquid on my wound.assuming there was fresh blood under her nails and she scratched me with above situation,is there any risk for hiv amd hep c?should i get tested??

I think the chance of anything passing is very low for a number of reasons. The person would need to have something like HIV or hepatitis B & C for there to be any risk in the first place. Also the person would need to have this blood on a part of the nail that would enable it to still be there after it had broken your skin. Given this I think the risk is very low. But I can see if someone did have one of these infections and the conditions were exact maybe it could be possible.

This is the good thing with going for a test as this will allow you to remove all doubt if this is still concerning you. You could go for a HIV and hepatitis B & C test, we find most infections would show up on a test 6 weeks after they had passed to someone, but still recommend a final test at 3 months to make sure.

Let us know if this does not answer your question or if you have any more questions or concerns.

Health Nurse

This answer was posted on September 12, 2018.

This answer was updated on February 7, 2022.

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