-> The threat of aids and other diseases is real, but protective measure
 -> really common sense and require little or no training. Some are getti
 -> paranoid about disease that they think about wearing a full-body cond
 -> walk out of their house. Aids is really more difficult to catch than
 MR> How are you suppose to stop the bleeding with out pputting pressure on
 MR> it to stop it? I'm sure everyone carrys a pair of gloves around in the
 MR> car like you do.
Your point is well-taken, most folks don't carry surgical gloves around with
them. You can use a bare hand to compress a badly bleeding area with just
about anything you can find and have no worry unless you have broken skin or
a wound on your hand. If you wanted to compress the wound with your foot,
using your shoes, that would be better than nothing. If the wounded person is
conscious, you can also hand them whatever you can find and ask them to apply
pressure to their own wound. The point was that aids is much harder to catch
than most folks think. It's obvious that aids is a real threat and should
cause concern, but there are many common sense ways to help them when they
are bleeding to death. The simple use of a plastic grocery bag or any other
type of plastic material between you and the wound would work fine to protect
you. If you have open wounds on your hands, I would certainly recommend some
sort of protection. This is first assuming that the person has aids, and the
chances are that they don't. I'm not saying that you should assume they don't
have aids, but in reality, only a small percentage of the population has
aids. Regardless, common sense protective measures of some sort should be
used when you try to render aid, especially if the injured person is bleeding
badly.
Tom Rightmer - A Victims' Rights Advocate
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