how can u tell if a 12 year old girl has hiv or std from swallowing sperm?

Answer 1

Brian L is WRONG!!! You can most definitely contract HIV from ingesting semen. 70% of gay men who contract it, do so from oral sex...the number is higher for heterosexual teens. This article is posted on the Center for disease Control web sight, check out paragraph 5


AIDS is one of the most serious, deadly diseases in human history. More than 20 years ago, doctors in the United States identified the first cases of AIDS in San Francisco and New York. Now there are an estimated 42 million people living with HIV or AIDS worldwide, and more than 3 million die every year from AIDS-related illnesses.

AIDS is caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). HIV destroys a type of defense cell in the body called a CD4 helper lymphocyte (pronounced: lim-fuh-site). These lymphocytes are part of the body's immune system, the defense system that fights infectious diseases. But as HIV destroys these lymphocytes, people with the virus begin to get serious infections that they normally wouldn't — that is, they become immune deficient. The name for this condition is acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).

Half of all new HIV infections in the United States occur in people under 25 years of age, and thousands of U.S. teens become infected with HIV each year.

As the medical community learns more about how HIV works, they've been able to develop drugs to inhibit it (meaning they interfere with its growth). These drugs have been successful in slowing the progress of the disease, and people with the disease now live much longer. But there is still no cure for HIV and AIDS.


HIV can be transmitted from an infected person to another person through blood, semen (also known as "***," the fluid released from the penis when a male ejaculates), vaginal fluids, and breast milk.

The virus is spread through high-risk behaviors including:

unprotected oral, vaginal, or anal sexual intercourse ("unprotected" means not using a condom)
sharing needles, such as needles used to inject drugs (including needles used for injecting steroids) and those used for tattooing
People who have another sexually transmitted disease, such as syphilis, genital herpes, chlamydia, gonorrhea, or bacterial vaginosis are at greater risk for getting HIV during sex with infected partners.

If a woman with HIV is pregnant, her newborn baby can catch the virus from her before birth, during the birthing process, or from breastfeeding. If doctors know an expectant mother has HIV, they can usually prevent the spread of the virus from mother to baby. All pregnant teens and women should be tested for HIV so they can begin treatment if necessary.

How Does HIV Affect the Body?
A healthy body is equipped with CD4 helper lymphocyte cells (CD4 cells). These cells help the immune system function normally and fight off certain kinds of infections. They do this by acting as messengers to other types of immune system cells, telling them to become active and fight against an invading germ.

HIV attaches to these CD4 cells, infects them, and uses them as a place to multiply. In doing so, the virus destroys the ability of the infected cells to do their job in the immune system. The body then loses the ability to fight many infections.

Because their immune systems are weakened, people who have AIDS are unable to fight off many infections, particularly tuberculosis and other kinds of otherwise rare infections of the lung (such as Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia), the surface covering of the brain (meningitis), or the brain itself (encephalitis). People who have AIDS tend to keep getting sicker, especially if they are not taking antiviral medications properly.

AIDS can affect every body system. The immune defect caused by having too few CD4 cells also permits some cancers that are stimulated by viral illness to occur — some people with AIDS get forms of lymphoma and a rare tumor of blood vessels in the skin called Kaposi's sarcoma. Because AIDS is fatal, it's important that doctors detect HIV infection as early as possible so a person can take medication to delay the onset of AIDS.

How Do People Know They Have HIV?
Once a person's blood lacks the number of CD4 cells required to fight infections, or the person has signs of specific illnesses or diseases that occur in people with HIV infection, doctors make a diagnosis of AIDS.

Severe symptoms of HIV infection and AIDS may not appear for 10 years. And for years leading up to that, a person may not have symptoms of AIDS. The amount of time it takes for symptoms of AIDS to appear varies from person to person. Some people may feel and look healthy for years while they are infected with HIV. It is still possible to infect others with HIV, even if the person with the virus has absolutely no symptoms. You cannot tell simply by looking at someone whether he or she is infected.

When a person's immune system is overwhelmed by AIDS, the symptoms can include:

extreme weakness or fatigue
rapid weight loss
frequent fevers that last for several weeks with no explanation
heavy sweating at night
swollen lymph glands
minor infections that cause skin rashes and mouth, genital, and anal sores
white spots in the mouth or throat
chronic diarrhea
a cough that won't go away
trouble remembering things
Girls may also experience severe vaginal yeast infections that don't respond to usual treatment, as well as pelvic inflammatory disease (PID).

How Can It Be Prevented?
One of the reasons that HIV is so dangerous is that a person can have the virus for a long time without knowing it. That person can then spread the virus to others through high-risk behaviors. HIV transmission can be prevented by:

abstaining from sex (not having oral, vaginal, or anal sex)
always using latex condoms for all types of sexual intercourse
avoiding contact with the bodily fluids through which HIV is transmitted
never sharing needles
How Is It Diagnosed and Treated?
If you think that you may have HIV or AIDS or if you have had a partner who may have HIV or AIDS, see your family doctor, adolescent doctor, or gynecologist. He or she will talk with you and perform tests. The doctor may do a blood test or a swab of the inside of your cheek. Depending on what type of test is done, results may take from a few hours to several days.

People can also get tested for HIV/AIDS at special AIDS clinics around the country. Clinics offer both anonymous (meaning the clinic doesn't know a person's name) and confidential (meaning they know who a person is but keep it private) testing. Most AIDS testing centers will ask you to follow up for counseling to get your results, whether the test is negative or positive.

If you're not sure how to find a doctor or get an AIDS test, you can contact the National AIDS Hotlines at (800) 342-AIDS (English) or [phone] (Spanish). A specialist there will explain what you should do next.

There is no cure for AIDS, which makes prevention so important. Combinations of antiviral drugs and drugs that boost the immune system have allowed many people with HIV to resist infections, stay healthy, and prolong their lives, but these medications are not a cure. Right now there is no vaccine to prevent HIV and AIDS, although researchers are working on developing one.

Reviewed by: Steven Dowshen, MD
Date reviewed: February 2005
Originally reviewed by: Joseph Masci, MD

Answer 2

First of all, what's a 12 year old doing giving oral in the first place?? It's way too young to be doing anything of the kind. You can get HIV and many STDs from swallowing semen. This girl should see a doctor right away and get tested. She should also go on the pill before she ends up pregnant. Best of luck.

Answer 3

The only way to tell is to go to your doctor or to a free clinic and get tested for STD's
and yes, you can get HIV from swallowing sperm. If you have a sore, or a cut, even if it is a small one, the virus can get into your blood stream. At twelve you should not be swallowing sperm. You are too young to be having sexual encounters. If you are going to do it anyways, at least practice safe sex. Use a condom, even if you are "just" giving oral sex.

Answer 4

what the hell is a 12 yrs old girl swallowing sperm for!! what the hell is going on with these kids today. you can't tell by looking at someone if they have an std they need to get checked.

Answer 5

Like everybody said, she'd have to get tested. Now you might want to start answering some questions because from what I see it looks like a lot of questions but no answers in your profile. It's just a suggestion, but you can't have too many points if you always ask and never answer. So if you want to stay above 100 to maintain your asking privelidge, you might want to start answering a few questions.

Answer 6

Get checked out at a local clinic, like Planned Parenthood.

For the most part, you can't get HIV from swallowing sperm, but you can get herpes, syphilis, gonorrhea, and other STDs.

For what it's worth, though, it's my opinion that 12 is a bit young to be worrying about oral sex. This 12-year-old needs to slow the heck down.

Answer 7

first of all why would a 12 year old be swallowing sperm?

answer that then i'll answer your question

Answer 8

First of all:
You CAN get HIV from Blow j0b, it it transferred through blood based human secretions, like sperm.

She needs to get a Blood test.

Answer 9

I don't know where these others that answered got their information..you "can" contract HIV from swallowing sperm.
http://www.drdrew.com/article.asp?id=1095

Answer 10

I see a sad future ahead...get used to wearing high heels,short skirt and standing on street corners in the cold,dark nites

Answer 11

Ask her, then lock her up untill shes old enough to have sex, find out who the sick person was to have sex with a12 year old and beat the living S*#T out of them, then pick up a phone and call the cops.