Dear Doctor Greeting!!
I am feeling anxiety and fear with one of hypothetical situation.
On 5th August I had a late night call with my Client. Suddenly I feel ejaculation of semen(nightfall) from me as I was in call so I wasn’t able to went to wash it. So, for meanwhile I found one discarded handkerchief near by me, but it was little bit wet. I had put that handkerchief to my underwear so that It will not smell, and everything goes to handkerchief.
After 4-5 mins I had removed that handkerchief and wiped my upper part of my penis with that handkerchief. On that night everything went right.
After 2-3 days I start worried why that handkerchief was wet? and was that Handkerchief from our house? Then I asked same question to my wife, she confirmed me that Handkerchief is our and that was wet because I put some water to wipe something.
But I am anxious about situation if she is wrong and may be her situation was done on some other day and someone had thrown that handkerchief into my balcony after wiping this semen’s into that handkerchief and My wife had picked that cloth while picking other cloth.
So, please let me How much time HIV can survive in handkerchief? Suppose in worst case there 3-4 mins gaps between all these activities?
Is there any chance of HIV infection, if some put infected handkerchief near to penis for 4-5 mins and then wiped upper part after it?
I was trying to get answer from googling in internet, but I really get upset and totally confused me
Now worst case scenario is coming to my mind, was anything was missed.