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Does saliva inactivate HIV?
Does saliva inactivate the HIV virus, particularly when vaginal fluids are placed in the mouth by a woman and then spat upon the penis to use as lubrication for a handjob?
Our members have fully answered your question that this is not a risk. If your anxiety does not allow you to accept this, we suggest you speak to your own doctor. We are closing this discussion.
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HIV is instantly inactivated in air and also in saliva which means it is effectively dead so it can't infect from touching, external rubbing or oral activities. It doesn't matter if you and they were actively bleeding or had cuts at the time either because the HIV is effectively dead.
Only 3 adult risks are the following:
1. unprotected penetrating vaginal
2. unprotected penetrating anal sex
3. sharing needles that you inject with. Knowing these 3 are all you need to know to protect yourself against HIV. The situation you describe is a long way from any of these 3.
Even with blood, lactation, cuts, rashes, burns, etc the air or the saliva does not allow inactivated virus to infect from touching, external rubbing or oral activities. The above HIV science is 40 years old and very well established so there is no detail that you can add that will make that encounter a risk for HIV. No one got HIV from the situation you encountered in 40 years and likely no one will in the next 40 of your life, so there is less likelihood of HIV transmission happening than of you getting hit by a meteor as you read this.
Only 3 adult risks are the following:
1. unprotected penetrating vaginal
2. unprotected penetrating anal sex
3. sharing needles that you inject with. Knowing these 3 are all you need to know to protect yourself against HIV. The situation you describe is a long way from any of these 3.
Even with blood, lactation, cuts, rashes, burns, etc the air or the saliva does not allow inactivated virus to infect from touching, external rubbing or oral activities. The above HIV science is 40 years old and very well established so there is no detail that you can add that will make that encounter a risk for HIV. No one got HIV from the situation you encountered in 40 years and likely no one will in the next 40 of your life, so there is less likelihood of HIV transmission happening than of you getting hit by a meteor as you read this.
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Thank you. I am new to posting. Are you a medical professional and if not, how do I access med professional responses?
Doctors left here years ago but we rely on the opinion of expert doctors so I gave their opinion, not mine.
great thanks so much.
Also, how does your answer square with the plethora of documented cases where HIV was transmitted through mucocutaneous contact in a healthcare setting with blood and other bodily fluids? Ive read several studies where splashes of blood or other bodily fluids from a catheter to the eyes/nose/mouth caused HIV. Glad to hear your comment on this.
Reread about the meteor % which a doctor here calculated. Do you worry about that event?
You can get E Coli after a meal and hundreds do every year, yet you don't test for that higher % event after your meals.
You can get E Coli after a meal and hundreds do every year, yet you don't test for that higher % event after your meals.
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