My dumb friend? Answer This please?

Question

ok. I asked this question before but no one aswered. My friend always has sex with a blanket. He put it in the hamper like last week. Today he took it out of the bottom of the hamper and put his..um...you get it....into the blanket and it smelled really bad. Now he is worried he has aids. He did this a lot, but he did it to a dirty blanket and there is a lot of his semen on it, I was like "eww" when he told me this, but he is worried that he has aids, and he's only thirteen, does he have aids, the blanket was at the bottom of the hamper, is there a way to clam him down, and if he does have aids is there a way to get ride of it, what are the signs of aids, how can I calm him down?

Answer 1

AIDS comes from sexual exposure with someone else who has AIDS. If he had HIV/AIDS, which is incurable, he can't get it a second time from re-using his dirty blanket. AIDS is not transferred via bed linens.

What will calm him down is an education on HIV/AIDS. He, and apparently also you, have no idea at all how this disease is acquired or spread. Please, read the link I am posting here for you:
http://www.herpes-coldsores.com/std/aids.htm
I found one that explains it all in simple, layman's terms.

As for symptoms of HIV/AIDS:
rapid weight loss
fever
fatigue
cough
swollen glands
night sweats
persistent diarrhea
pneumonia
Karposi Sarcomas (skin blotches)
neurological disorders

Tell your friend that the time to really worry about HIV/AIDS is when he is anticipating having sex with others (and this includes oral sex). It is best he that he have a complete understanding of STDs before he reaches that phase of his experimentation as it could save his life.