Yesterday, I was getting into my car when a young woman with blood on her face says; "Can I ask you a huge favor?"
I instinctively said yes, and got out of my car. (We were in a public parking lot)
Then she asked to use my cell phone.
I see that she has blood all over her hands, so I offer to dial. But, she motions that she needs to do it herself, that's the only way that she knows the #. So, I hand her my phone. She tells the friend that her bf hit her so hard that her head is bleeding.
When she hands my phone back, it has blood all over it. :(
Okay, I felt bad worrying about myself right then, but part of me wished that I had gloves on when I took the phone back (although it was pretty dry)
I used disinfectant wipes on it and my hands right then, but I still feel creeped out.
I mean, I'm thinking a guy who hits you, probably sleeps around on you etc.

So, should I be worried at all?

Unless you had any open cuts on your hands, you're safe from the vast majority of fluid-transmittable diseases. So, as long as she didn't have marburg you're probably fine.

yeah, i wouldn't worry unless you had cuts or other open wounds.

I would use something stronger than disinfectant wipes on your phone. Those things say on the package they don't disinfect unless they're on for blah blah blah minutes. Try taking a cotton swab with alcohol or 3% H2O2 to the keypad before you use it again, just in case.

Alcohol is what we use at our clinic for disinfection. Peroxide will bleach the blood stain away but not disinfect. The odds of contracting blood borne illness is relatively low even if you do have cuts on your hands. They have to be truly open and have contact with the blood for you to have any chance of getting anything.

I know when we have blood spills at works, the health dept/doc says to clean up with bleach. But daral's on the mark here..unless you have some cuts/sores that were exposed, you're like 99.9% safe. :)

No cuts or scrapes and she looked healthy, too. Thanks guys :)

Off-topic.... but when I saw the title "Blood" and then right under it, "delicious,"
for a second I thought this was going to be a vampire thread. :D