2006-09-02 05:48:55 · 12 answers · asked by nothing n 1 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ STDs
if you're having sex at the same time, or if you both have cutts in your mouths otherwise, no
2006-09-02 05:50:19 · answer #1 · answered by bonkti 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
On the Cheek:
HIV is not transmitted casually, so kissing on the cheek is very safe. Even if the other person has the virus, your unbroken skin is a good barrier. No one has become infected from such ordinary social contact as dry kisses, hugs, and handshakes.
Open-Mouth Kissing:
Open-mouth kissing is considered a very low-risk activity for the transmission of HIV. However, prolonged open-mouth kissing could damage the mouth or lips and allow HIV to pass from an infected person to a partner and then enter the body through cuts or sores in the mouth. Because of this possible risk, the CDC recommends against open-mouth kissing with an infected partner.
One case suggests that a woman became infected with HIV from her sex partner through exposure to contaminated blood during open-mouth kissing.
For more information refer to the July 11, 1997, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report “Transmission of HIV Possibly Associated with Exposure of Mucous Membrane to Contaminated Blood” located at http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00048364.htm.
2006-09-02 06:00:03 · answer #2 · answered by ted_armentrout 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Is it a scientific possibility: yes. I read on wikipedia that you would have to exchange gallons of saliva to transmit what would be a possible infectious load of the virus. But, this also means that there is an infinitesimal probability that you could acquire it from a simple kiss. This probability is so small that it is certainly not paying any attention to: its probably something like .1 people have been infected this way since the beginning of the AIDS epidemic (meaning 10% chance one person has).
2006-09-03 00:12:47 · answer #3 · answered by midwestbruin 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Though human saliva is considered a body fluid, there has been no definite case recorded with kissing but only contentions of its possiblity. It is claimed by experts that it maybe is because human saliva do not contain substantially enough virus to initiate an infection.
2006-09-02 08:24:55 · answer #4 · answered by *** 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Hiv virus is very weak outside of the body and is usually killed by air. there is a real slight chance if the kiss is saliva to saliva but it's like 1000.000 to one!!
2006-09-02 05:52:25 · answer #5 · answered by exel 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, not unless they're bleeding from their gums or elsewhere in their mouth, and you have open wounds or sores in your mouth that their blood goes into. This is extremely rare, though it has been known to happen.
In other words, you're fine unless both of you are periodontal disaster areas.
2006-09-02 05:50:50 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only if you and the person you're kissing both have opens wounds in the mouth.
2006-09-02 06:07:06 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
not from casual 'dry' kissing, but there are trace amounts of the virus in saliva so theoretically, it is possible, but not probable.
2006-09-02 05:51:14 · answer #8 · answered by curiosity 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No i dont think so i remember hearing that you could but you would have to take more spit than is possible, lol :) Good Luck
2006-09-02 05:50:48 · answer #9 · answered by Magic Matty 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it is a short kiss---probably not.
French kiss--maybe
I have NOOO idea
2006-09-02 05:50:27 · answer #10 · answered by ☼shine☼ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋