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February 8, 2009, 3:07 am
Flag as Inappropriate BabeRuth  

How can you protect against disease when having to clean up spilled blood? Especially if you are unsure as to the health status of the person who bled.

It depends on the disease that you are concerned about. For instance, HIV is killed by a one in four dilution of bleach. I think other diseases are denatured by strong alcohols.

And make sure that you are wearing gloves whilst you clean up. You don't want to catch something during the clean up process do you!

Definitely use gloves and the bleach solution will be good to clean the area afterwards as it will kill almost any germ there is.

I don't think that anything will live through a bleach treatment. If there are real fears then you need proper gloves when you train-some of the medical grade rubber latex ones.

Gloves and bleach make sense but honestly this is nothing I ever thought about until I realized how easy it could be to overlook something this simple.

Gloves and bleach should be adequate unless in the clean up you are doing there is risk of being splashed with contaminants. Then you would need to have more extensive protective clothing.