Can A Person With Hiv Give Im Injections?

[Bottomhole]

Hey guys, just wondering if anyone could shed some light on this issue. I'm HIV + and was recently at the doctors with my mother for her vitamin b12 jab. Our family doctor told her she could do it at home every 3 months to save the trip in. So I was the one asked to jab her. Our doctor knows about my HIV but my parents don't. Anyway he showed me how to do it and it went well. However today I got a voice mail asking to call him back tomorrow about those injections. My thought is that he forgot about my condition when he was demonstrating and then realised it might be risky having me inject my mother every 3 months. Could this be the case? Is it ill-advised for a doctor to allow a positive person to use a syringe on a family member? If he tells me I can't, it'll mean I have to lie about the reason to my mother, which will be difficult as she was told it's fine previously. 

 

Any thoughts, advice, or if anyone has been in a similar situation, please comment. Thanks

[asfdsafdsaf]

He may just want to remind you that you need to be extra careful, etc. Unless the needle comes in contact with your body, there's no reason that it would be more dangerous than just being around her normally.

[Bottomhole]

Hope so. I guess there is more of a risk as I'm administering it. However if I accidentally pricked myself I'd hardly continue with the shot. Practically I can't see how I would stick myself then her.

[Ranger Rick]

Why do I feel like someone on this forum is going to be turned on by this?

[jeff238]

He will probably just remind you of standard precautions. They will probably be disposable needles as well. Just to be extra safe, you could wear gloves too. There are lots of hiv+ people in the health care industry giving injections every day. I know this because I know some of them

[bearbandit]

You should be using universal precautions, ie thoroughly wash hands, then wear latex or vinyl gloves for everything else. The syringe can go in the ordinary rubbish but the sharp should go into a sharps bin. It's good practice not to attempt to re-sheath the needle in case of injury to yourself. Not that anything would happen with a vitamin, it's good practise because once they know you're managing those injections, they'll possibly in future ask you to do others. In the UK those precautions are considered perfectly adequate. Health care workers who have HIV regularly do injections. I have to admit that when John was alive I used to do his interferon injections without gloves (though obviously with freshly washed hands).

[wannalivefree]

it is perfectly ok. there's no real difference between u or any other person, you just have to take care in not pricking yourself as any other one (it's not advisable to use a needle used on another person, not only for "safety" reasons which are present even on hiv- people, but also because of this http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7g5KmqOZr2Q/UKrA9oiLraI/AAAAAAAAAEM/PR_sj7pAUQU/s400/syringe+under+microscope.jpg so the needle becomes more difficult and more painful to insert).

btw, don't worry, you don't put your mother at risk in any way, it is full of hiv+ healthcare workers. in italy, for example, no one can be forced to declare its status by law because being hiv+, even for healthcare workers, it's not adding any risk for patients.

bye! sorry for my very bad english

[bearbandit]

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7g5KmqOZr2Q/UKrA9oiLraI/AAAAAAAAAEM/PR_sj7pAUQU/s400/syringe+under+microscope.jpg

Ouch! When I was doing John's interferon injections I used to jokingly threaten him with trying the needle out on a car tyre first... (he hated needles and joking was the best way to relax him for the injection)

And your English is excellent, by the way

[tboyer]

As long as you observed universal precautions there is nothing to worry about, Of course if you had accidentally pricked your self

before giving me an injection, I would insist that you would use the same needle on me

[wannalivefree]

Ouch! When I was doing John's interferon injections I used to jokingly threaten him with trying the needle out on a car tyre first... (he hated needles and joking was the best way to relax him for the injection)

And your English is excellent, by the way

 

Ouch!

Thanks a lot.

 

@Bottomhole use the same needle on me as well