Wolfie648
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I recommend having one's own toys but I'll be damned if I can figure out how the red and white blood cells can be removed from blood without a centrifuge or a millipore filter. Are you sure you aren't talking about lymphatic fluid?
www.dictionary .com
white blood cell
n. Abbr. WBC
Any of various blood cells that have a nucleus and cytoplasm, separate into a thin white layer when whole blood is centrifuged, and help protect the body from infection and disease. White blood cells include neutrophils, eosinophils, basophils, lymphocytes, and monocytes. Also called leukocyte, white cell, white corpuscle.
red blood cell
n. Abbr. RBC
A cell in the blood of vertebrates that transports oxygen and carbon dioxide to and from the tissues. In mammals, the red blood cell is disk-shaped and biconcave, contains hemoglobin, and lacks a nucleus. Also called erythrocyte, red cell, red corpuscle.
plas·ma
P Pronunciation Key (pl z m ) also plasm (pl z m)n.
1.
a. The clear, yellowish fluid portion of blood, lymph, or intramuscular fluid in which cells are suspended. It differs from serum in that it contains fibrin and other soluble clotting elements.
b. Blood plasma.
http://www.bloodbook.com/facts.html
Plasma, the fourth major component of Blood, is a sticky, pale yellow fluid mixture of water, protein and salts. It is 95% water. The other 5% is made up of nutrients, proteins and hormones.
Blood Plasma constitutes 55% of the volume of human Blood.
http://www.bdsm-peergroup.com/resources_toy_cleaning.htm
--This is a small excerpt of the article, I would encourage anyone interested (actually I'd encourage those not intersted as well ;-) to read it in it's entirety--
Contagious body fluids include blood, plasma, semen, vaginal fluids and saliva. Urine and feces can also carry pathogens. Simple skin contact, even if the skin is sweaty, is not considered sufficient as a vector of direct (or indirect) transmission of any known pathogen. So it is generally safe to use a leather flogger on more than one person's back or ass in succession, assuming that no one has broken skin. Washing in between with saddle soap (or a suitable suede care product if you own a soft flogger) is not a bad idea for general hygiene, but hardly a dire necessity if the instrument has touched only unbroken skin.
This is not always a safe assumption. Pimples or “zits” are effectively broken skin, and they are not an uncommon occurrence. Likewise minute scratches, scrapes or pinpricks; horsehair whips are particularly good at creating these tiny breaks in the epidermis, and stiff, scratchy-edged leather can do the same kind of almost unseen damage. But how likely is it in reality that an infection could be transmitted this way?
2. The recipient must be vulnerable to the disease, ie, not immune. Since there is not currently an effective vaccine for AIDS (though there is one for most strains of hepatitis), you can assume you are not immune and you are vulnerable to disease.
--POSTERS ADDITION – please note that a person must be vaccinated and does not have a natural immunity to hepatitis. If you aren’t vaccinated you are susceptible under the circumstances (but not limited to) outlined in this article.
How much of a risk are you taking by re-using a flogger that has broken skin? Again, the factors that control disease transmission are presence of pathogen (somebody actually has to have the disease), amount of pathogen (was it barely a smear, or really wet with blood, and did you reduce the amount of fluid or the viability of the pathogens in the fluid by wiping, washing, drying or applying a sterilizing solution?), vulnerability to the pathogen (if you've been successfully vaccinated against hepatitis, you can't get those strains) and point of entry (infected fluid must contact mucus membrane or broken skin) and length of exposure time (how fast did you wash it off).
Those are the factors that influence your risk level. You can choose the level of precaution you want to take. Since AIDS is a fatal disease, most people prefer to err on the side of caution.
Citations: American Red Cross Emergency Response textbook, 1993 edition; additional recent information from SFSI, Jay Wiseman and Dr. Charles Moser.
Thanks to John Warren for the post on alt.torture that provided the inspiration to write this article.
DISCLAIMER: Please consult your doctor or a trusted medical authority for recent, up to date information if you are concerned about most accurately assessing your level of risk. I have done my best to accurately research this information, but I am a layperson (have been certified only to the First Responder level by the American Red Cross) and not a practicing medical doctor.
http://www.youngagain.com/hepc.html
According to the CDC, 1 in 45 Americans or nearly 2.% per cent of the American population is infected with Hepatitis C.
--END QUOTES
Just my opinion, but if I win the lottery I want it to be the one where I receive money for it, not HIV or hepatitis or who knows what else and just because someone doesn't know (or worse, know) they have a disease doesn't mean they can't spread it.
Safety is absolutely an issue for begginers, intermediates and experts.
Wartenberg pinwheels, whips, dragon's tongues, vampire gloves, rope floggers (abrasion play) and probably a few dozen other common and not so common instruments and techniques are all very capable of breaking the skin and in especially the case of the wartenberg and vampire gloves you may not know immediately.
D (owner of j)
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