is it transmitted through saliva the toilett?
2007-09-23 04:59:50 · 4 answers · asked by dwerty 1 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ STDs
Whilst HIV may live for a short while outside of the body, HIV transmission has not been reported as a result of contact with spillages or small traces of blood, semen or other bodily fluids. This is partly because HIV dies quite quickly once exposed to the air, and also because spilled fluids would have to get into a person's bloodstream to infect them.
Scientists agree that HIV does not survive well in the environment, making the chance of environmental transmission remote. To obtain data on the survival of HIV, laboratory studies usually use artificially high concentrations of laboratory-grown virus. Although these concentrations of HIV can be kept alive for days or even weeks under controlled conditions, studies have shown that drying of these high concentrations of HIV reduces the amount of infectious virus by 90 to 99 percent within a few hours.
Since the HIV concentrations used in laboratory studies are much higher than those actually found in blood or other specimens, the real risk of HIV infection from dried bodily fluids is probably close to zero. Incorrect interpretation of conclusions drawn from laboratory studies have unnecessarily alarmed some people.
2007-09-23 05:14:32 · answer #1 · answered by black cat 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do not worry at all unless you have an unbandaged open cut and the person with aids starts bleeding into your cut. Since this is highly unlikely, you will NOT get aids from this person. And I'm sure he or she would appreciate very much if you just treated them as a normal person. Smile and welcome them. It would mean the world to them.
TX Mom
2007-09-23 12:09:14 · answer #2 · answered by TX Mom 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You will be fine. It is transmitted through bodily fluids. If you are not planning on exchanging any bodily fluids you will be ok. I just hope that you will be calm enough in front of your guest not to show your nervousness and cause them to feel uncomfortable. Relax and enjoy your visit.
2007-09-23 12:21:21 · answer #3 · answered by SoySrtaBonita 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, you can only get it if your blood goes into his/hers or if you have sex with this person. Don't make them feel uncomferable about it though, because they will see right threw you.
2007-09-23 13:50:14 · answer #4 · answered by brittany 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋