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blood on my tonque while kissing
Hello,
yesterday night I kissed with a friend I know only since a few weeks.
During kissing I start feeling after a while blood taste in my mouth. I stopped and I noticed that a wound on my tongue I had the day before while eating did get opened again and started bleeding. I used a tissue on my tongue and there was blood.
IT was not just a tiny wound but there was flowing blood. We stopped kissing. I do not know her screening status regarding HIV since we did not have sex we did not worried about that, but this incident happened anyway. She did not have any wound with blood in her mouth but of course her saliva had a contact with my open wound on my tongue. The wound got opened while tongues were touching. So I am concerned about any risk regarding HIV.
thanks for help.
Frank
yesterday night I kissed with a friend I know only since a few weeks.
During kissing I start feeling after a while blood taste in my mouth. I stopped and I noticed that a wound on my tongue I had the day before while eating did get opened again and started bleeding. I used a tissue on my tongue and there was blood.
IT was not just a tiny wound but there was flowing blood. We stopped kissing. I do not know her screening status regarding HIV since we did not have sex we did not worried about that, but this incident happened anyway. She did not have any wound with blood in her mouth but of course her saliva had a contact with my open wound on my tongue. The wound got opened while tongues were touching. So I am concerned about any risk regarding HIV.
thanks for help.
Frank
You can't get HIV from kissing even with a tongue wound that is bleeding. HIV is transmitted by unprotected vaginal or anal sex or sharing of IV drug needles. Saliva inactivates it. So, this is not a risk for HIV.
You had no HIV risk and it doesn't matter if she was positive so a test would be a waste of time.
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. If she was positive then you kissed dead virus, and dead is final as you know.
Only 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. Your situation 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 any of your encounter a risk for HIV. No one in 40 years of HIV history got HIV from the situation you are concerned about so it is unlikely that it will happen in the next 40 of your lifetime either.
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. If she was positive then you kissed dead virus, and dead is final as you know.
Only 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. Your situation 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 any of your encounter a risk for HIV. No one in 40 years of HIV history got HIV from the situation you are concerned about so it is unlikely that it will happen in the next 40 of your lifetime either.
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