Environmental transmission

[brycey]

Hi Everyone,

I am a young male who recently had a recent risky exposure and am currently awaiting window periods to do testing, etc. I am home from college at my family's house and I was not sure if I need to take extra precautions, especially in the bathroom, to avoid transmission to my family members.

I am particularly concerned about my mother, as she has developed a rash on her face that comes and goes that she never had before. My biggest fear would be to hurt someone else, should I in fact be infected.

Can toilet use/fecal particles or semen on a tissue/in the bathroom possibly cause infection?

I must sound very uneducated about this topic, but the CDC website I just came from was rather ambiguous about environmental transmission.

Thank you

[Teak]

I would hope that eveyone had good hygene but you wouldn't have a risk off the toilet seat or anything else.

[brycey]

Thanks for the response.

Does this mean that people who are certain that they are infected also do not take precautions beyond that of a non-infected person when it comes to defecating and cleaning semen? I would like to act as if I'm sure I have it unless the test shows that I do not.

And thanks again!

[Teak]

No you cannot transmit HIV in that fashion.