Five precautions to take when caring for the HIV sick cousin to prevent spread of infections.
- Wear an overall to protect your clothing
- Wear hand gloves to protect any open wounds on your hand from coming into contact with his body fluids.
- Nurse him in a well-ventilated room
- Wash his beddings and clothes with disinfectant
- Give him his medicines at the right time and proper dosage.
- Be sure to treat any open wounds on him with disinfectant or prescribed creams.