Re: Stuck myself with the cat's lancet

"Richard Evans" <infodex@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Michelle C" <bookbug_35@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>"Richard Evans" <infodex@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> The cat and I are both diabetic. I check my own sugar 6-8 times per
>>> day, I check his twice. We have separate glucometer kits. Today, while
>>> preparing to check the cat's sugar, I had a brain fart and instead of
>>> lancing the cat I lanced my own forearm with a lancet that had been
>>> previously used on the cat.
>>>
>>> I immediately rinsed it with alcohol, but what are the chances I
>>> caught anything from the incident?
>>
>>Hi Richard,
>>
>>I'm just guessing, but I doubt that you can get anything harmful from
your
>>cat's lancet.  Most things people worry about catching from their cat
>>include ringworm (direct contact with skin), toxoplasmosis (from feces) 
>>and
>>cat scratch fever (method of transmission obvious--cat scratch).  I 
>>imagine
>>being a family pet that it's unlikely your cat has any of these things, 
>>and
>>none of them have to do with blood.  According to a little googling, the
>>blood diseases that may be carried by a cat--feline leukemia and feline
>>immunodeficiency virus--cannot be transmitted to humans.
>
> Thanks. According to a friend who is a vet tech, there is virtually no
> chance. It had been twelve hours since the lancet was last used and
> nothing contagious survives in the air that long.

I can only think of blood parasites that would be transmittable and that 
would be one heck of a stretch at that given the device used.  Viruses
etc, 
are not communicable between humans and cats.  If they were, we'd all be
in 
deep doo doo.

Paul