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Hiv from food and very bad oral mouth
First excuse my bad English!
I want to state my worry and hopefully someone with more knowledge can reassure me..a family member with very bad oran health, gingivitis and periodontal disease took a bite from a piece of food and gave the rest to my boy, he is 5 years old..it happened twice in one month! I'm very scared and anxious!! Can he get hiv if the person was positive and there was blood on the piece of food and then he eat it right away? If I didn't know the bad oral health of the person I probably wouldn't worry so much but it's quite bad and the person admitted to me in the past that sometimes literally his gums dripping blood :( can anyone explain to me if this possible? Or not?
TIA
Anxious mom
I want to state my worry and hopefully someone with more knowledge can reassure me..a family member with very bad oran health, gingivitis and periodontal disease took a bite from a piece of food and gave the rest to my boy, he is 5 years old..it happened twice in one month! I'm very scared and anxious!! Can he get hiv if the person was positive and there was blood on the piece of food and then he eat it right away? If I didn't know the bad oral health of the person I probably wouldn't worry so much but it's quite bad and the person admitted to me in the past that sometimes literally his gums dripping blood :( can anyone explain to me if this possible? Or not?
TIA
Anxious mom
You've checked in with us before and were given the actual risks for HIV and these have not changed. Please continue to focus on the only three risks for HIV and that air and saliva inactivate the virus.
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Your situation involves personal contact with an object in air ( hand, maybe blood, maybe dead hiv on food, maybe cuts, 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. Note that 2 of them require a penis and the third requires a hollow injecting shared needle - there are no OTHER 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 ANSWER "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 from hiv.
The other person's status is irrelevant when you have no exposure to live virus.
The idea that a person can get hiv from eating food is pretty weird when you consider that everyone eats food every day so people with hiv are bound to occasionally touch that food.
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 ANSWER "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 from hiv.
The other person's status is irrelevant when you have no exposure to live virus.
The idea that a person can get hiv from eating food is pretty weird when you consider that everyone eats food every day so people with hiv are bound to occasionally touch that food.
You were told the only risks before, so there's no sense repeating them. https://www.medhelp.org/posts/HIV-Prevention/Hiv-from-nail-salon/show/3074633
This is not a biology class for people with no medical training who have hiv fixation. See a therapist for hiv fixation.
This is not a biology class for people with no medical training who have hiv fixation. See a therapist for hiv fixation.
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