my 6 yo dd picked up a discarded needle on her way home from school. at the time i was certain that she had not been injured as there were no marks on her skin and she said that she'd not felt anything sharp or painful. i decided that it would have been neurotic to seek medical advice, so just spoke to my bro, who has some medical training, and , as a young gay man, has more knowledge than many about how HIV is transmitted.
anyway, have just put dd to bed and she's still worried about the needle episode. i'm still feeling a bit unsettled by it myself, tbh, and my anxiety about it has increased slightly, this evening.
what i'd really like to know in order to put my mind at rest is...firstly, would there be a very obvious wound if her skin had been punctured by the needle. secondly, as the blood inside the plastic bit of the syringe had dried, would that mean that any hiv virus present would have been there too long to have still been live?
tia