people say u cant but i dont understand how you can do a aids test with a sample of saliva but u cant catch it through passing it
2006-12-23 16:19:30 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ STDs
AIDS is transmitted through the exchange of bodily fluids. Saliva is a bodily fluid. Do the math. It may be more difficult to catch it through the exchanging of saliva, but difficult isn't the same thing as impossible.
Edit: if saliva could kill the HIV virus, then they would be using saliva as a cure. Smarten up people. I've been around since AIDS first came on the scene years ago. I've personally known a number of doctors and nurses who deal with the disease. I've seen the slow emergence of information released to the public over the years under the pretense of not wanting to create a panic. Your wanting to believe there isn't any danger doesn't make the danger any less real.
2006-12-23 16:21:44 · answer #1 · answered by marklemoore 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
no unless you have a cut inside your mouth you cannot contract aids through kissing. i have never heard of a saliva aids test either. that is not a very thorough way of testing for aids, i am a phlebotomist and i was always tested by blood for aids if i was ever accidentally stuck by a dirty needle or if a patient bled on me or any other kind of accidents like that in a hospital happened to me. an aids test should be a blood test though no a saliva. and aids cannot be contracted through kissing unless you have a cut in your mouth or on your gums.
2006-12-24 08:22:57 · answer #2 · answered by New Richmond Hometown 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no unless ur getting blood in the kiss, also though those before are kind of right in actually no way possible of catching aids though salivia, but correctly u have to swallow large amounts of salivia like 25gallons and u can get an std at once a very small chance bc not that many ppl contract that match salivia through kissing so ur safe
a kind of no yes answer
2006-12-27 23:56:19 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It most unlikely unless that person has a open cut. But studies show that a large amount of saliva could produce an enough to infect but it is a disgusting amount and is very unlikely.
2006-12-24 02:13:32 · answer #4 · answered by I love mode! 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would think that there might be a couple of reasons why you can test for HIV in the saliva but not get AIDS from kissing.
It may only take a little presense of the virus, not enough to transmit the desease, to test for the virus.
Saliva kills a lot of bugs, HIV may be one of them. The virus would have to survive in your partners saliva and then find access to your blood to survive.
Read on:
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has not documented ANY cases of HIV transmission occurring through kissing. Only one case of possible transmission through kissing was investigated, and the findings were not conclusive.
It is unlikely that someone who is HIV infected will transmit the virus through their saliva. While HIV can sometimes be isolated in the saliva of infected people, the levels of virus are low--probably too low to infect another person--and protective factors in saliva inactivate HIV's ability to infect cells. Please see my response to "Newest Information on Deep Kissing" (http://www.thebody.com/Forums/AIDS/SafeSex/Archive/TransmissionNon/Q2965.qna).
Infectious mononucleosis and HIV have no correlation--except that the symptoms of mono are similar to symptoms a person may experience shortly after infection. The fact that your girlfriend had mono says nothing about her HIV status.
http://www.thebody.com/index.html
2006-12-24 00:25:09 · answer #5 · answered by San Diego Art Nut 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No. AIDS does not pass thru saliva. Unless you have a cut or a sore on your mouth.
2006-12-24 00:21:03 · answer #6 · answered by IMHO 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
There are only two ways in which you can get aids. 1.blood transfusion 2.by sexual intercourse . the logic there is that our through our saliva, they can check if we have that virus in our body. and our blood too...
2006-12-24 00:31:43 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
No you can't. Aids is transfered through blood and semen. You can get it during sexual intercourse without protection, or by sharing needles.
Krazy Libra
2006-12-24 00:21:23 · answer #8 · answered by krazy_libra_from_ac 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
From what ive heard nope you cant. Im not sure how they can test for it with saliva either. ill take your word on that one!
2006-12-24 00:22:08 · answer #9 · answered by Wonx2150 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
yes, you can get HIV/AIDS from kissing if the infected person that you are kissing have a cut in their mouth.
2006-12-24 00:21:56 · answer #10 · answered by T 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋