can one get HIV by saliva contact?

Question

what are the ways you can get HIV?

Answer 1

Answer: No.

Any social contact with an HIV infected person holds no risk of infection with HIV/AIDS for uninfected persons. Although HIV has been identified in body fluids eg: saliva and urine, no scientific evidence exists to show that these fluids cause transmission of HIV.

There is no known risk of transmission from sweat, tears, respiratory droplets, swimming pool water, communal bath water, food or drinking water.

Casual contact:
HIV is not spread by casual contact
HIV cannot live in the air, water or food
HIV is weak - it only lives in body fluids
HIV only spreads if the body fluid of a person with HIV gets into the blood stream of another person.

No one has ever been infected by sharing cigarettes, being sneezed on or spat on by someone with HIV. Hope this helps, :)

Answer 2

Don't want to scare you, but you can get HIV from saliva, but the chances are extremely rare. You won't get it if you swallow, but if you happen to have a sore, or a cut inside your mouth where the saliva can come in contact with, then you could get HIV. HIV is transmitted through the blood. Sex is the main way you get HIV. Sharing needles is another common way.

There was an episode of CSI where a man got HIV when he killed a girl, her blood hit him in the eye and the eye membrane absorbed it. Don't know if that's true, but may want to look into it.

Answer 3

It is hypothetically possible, albeit VERY unlikely, to get HIV from someone's saliva. The only way that this could happen, though, would be if there was some blood in that person's mouth and it got into your body through a wound of some kind. The danger of that happening is not very big.

HIV is usually tansmitted through sex, anal sex, or the sharing of hypodermic needles. It can also be transmitted by blood transfusions, although that doesn't really happen much anymore because we screen the blood so carefully.

Answer 4

It is possible. The chances of this happening are EXTREMELY thin, it has never even happened. The saliva actually can carry the virus cells however you would need to either digest a great amount of the persons saliva (more then a gallon) or have a cut in your mouth that it could possible get into and have contact with your blood.

Answer 5

Not unless there is an open sore on the infected mouth, or you drink a lot of saliva. Be leary of kissing anyone with cold sores and unprotected sex and you should be okay, but dental dams are a good idea, too. They help prevent spreading herpes during oral sex.

Answer 6

No it takes 2 liters of saliva

Answer 7

No. It's a sexually transmitted disease. I can be passed through blood and through sexual contact. The most likely way to contract HIV is through sex and/or sharing needles.

Answer 8

Only if blood is in the saliva and then you also have a cut in your mouth. But it is a virus, so it can survive longer than bacteria.

Answer 9

I don't believe so. I remember learning in health class the four body fluids that CAN be infected by the disease are:
- Blood
- Semen
- Vaginal fluids
- Mother's Milk

HIV/AIDS can be contracted through unprotected intercourse, vaginal or anal, intravenous drug use (needles), or botched blood transfusions.

Answer 10

They say .. No
But if you have an open sore ... or an open wound they say yes..
I mean some people have gotten HIV from the dentist....Or so they say..
Who is "they" uh.. i don't remember?