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Can I get HIV by kissing someone when I have canker sore?
Hi, Im anonymous
I’d like to ask this question since it has making me worried about my health condition, 6 days ago I made out with someone and I had one canker sore in my lower lip but then I realized he had bad breath and I stopped kissing him, and Im worried that maybe his bad breath caused the bleeding gum and it’d get into my canker sore and gave me HIV. but I wasn’t sure because I couldn’t taste the blood when kissing him but Im sure he had bad breath, Im worried that he is HIV possitive because he had different type of rash on his chest and back. what should I do? would I be at risk kissing him?
I’d like to ask this question since it has making me worried about my health condition, 6 days ago I made out with someone and I had one canker sore in my lower lip but then I realized he had bad breath and I stopped kissing him, and Im worried that maybe his bad breath caused the bleeding gum and it’d get into my canker sore and gave me HIV. but I wasn’t sure because I couldn’t taste the blood when kissing him but Im sure he had bad breath, Im worried that he is HIV possitive because he had different type of rash on his chest and back. what should I do? would I be at risk kissing him?
People do not get HIV from kissing, thank goodness. The only ways that people get HIV is to have unprotected vaginal or anal sex or share IV drug needles, that's it. Saliva and air inactivate the virus. Bleeding gums, canker sores, etc. and kissing will not result in your getting HIV. There isn't a single documented, proven case of this ever happening in the history of HIV.
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Thank you, I hope thats true, I makes me feel relieved but when I google the possibility of contracting with the HIV by kissing when having bleeding gums or sores is low risk, that low risk still makes me anxious and also I read that there was one case a woman got hiv by her partner and assumed that because she had deep kissing with him and said there was no breakage of condom when doing intercourse.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00048364.htm
Your situation involves personal contact with an object in air (mouth, saliva, etc. ). You will be happy to learn that you had no risk, because you can't get hiv from personal contact except unprotected penetrating vaginal or anal with a penis, neither of which you did and you didn't share hollow needles to inject with which is the only other way to acquire hiv - there are only 3 ways to get hiv. Analysis of large numbers of infected people over the 40 years of hiv history has proven that people don't get hiv in the way you are worried is a risk.
HIV is a fragile virus in air or saliva and is effectively instantly dead in either air or saliva so the WORST that could happen is dead virus rubbed you, and obviously anything which is dead cannot live again so you are good. Blood and cuts would not be relevant in your situation since the hiv has become effectively dead, so you don't have to worry about them to be sure that you are safe.
There is no reason for a person to test when they are safe. The advice took into consideration that the other person might be positive, so move on and enjoy life instead of thinking about this non-event. hiv prevention is straightforward since there are only 3 ways you can become infected, so next time you wonder if you had a risk, ask yourself this QUESTION. "Did I do any of the 3?" Then after you say "No, I didn't" you will know that it's time to move on back to your happy life.
No one got hiv from what you did during 40 years of hiv history and no one will get it in the next 40 years of your life either. You can do what you did any time and be safe.
We rely on the opinion of expert doctors so do not pay attention to claims that posters locate or we will be arguing forever. No one will get hiv in the next 40 years of your life from kissing which should be pretty obvious since everyone has kissed dozens of people in their lifetime and if hiv was as contagious as you think we would all have it by now. You will get Covid if that person has it though, so your priorities are mixed up when you worry about a disease that no one has caught kissing.
HIV is a fragile virus in air or saliva and is effectively instantly dead in either air or saliva so the WORST that could happen is dead virus rubbed you, and obviously anything which is dead cannot live again so you are good. Blood and cuts would not be relevant in your situation since the hiv has become effectively dead, so you don't have to worry about them to be sure that you are safe.
There is no reason for a person to test when they are safe. The advice took into consideration that the other person might be positive, so move on and enjoy life instead of thinking about this non-event. hiv prevention is straightforward since there are only 3 ways you can become infected, so next time you wonder if you had a risk, ask yourself this QUESTION. "Did I do any of the 3?" Then after you say "No, I didn't" you will know that it's time to move on back to your happy life.
No one got hiv from what you did during 40 years of hiv history and no one will get it in the next 40 years of your life either. You can do what you did any time and be safe.
We rely on the opinion of expert doctors so do not pay attention to claims that posters locate or we will be arguing forever. No one will get hiv in the next 40 years of your life from kissing which should be pretty obvious since everyone has kissed dozens of people in their lifetime and if hiv was as contagious as you think we would all have it by now. You will get Covid if that person has it though, so your priorities are mixed up when you worry about a disease that no one has caught kissing.
You can read anything on the internet, and it seems you believe anything that woman posted - yet you don't even know her.
@GuitarRox @AnxiousNoMore
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