ok, thanks everyone, i won't ask anymore, i have my doubts slapped out from me
thanks for the replies, i read a case about a woman, hiv was transmitted by manicure equipment, shared with her cousin (i guess because of blood) so hiv does live outside the body for some time but would you say 10 - 15 mins be enough for the virus to get inactive? also i touched different surfaces between the time of the handshake and lighting the cigarette, so this would weaken the virus?
You had ZERO risk. If you want to see a doctor about this, you'd better make it a psychiatrist because that's the only kind of medical help you need for this. Any kind of testing for this is a pointless waste of time and money, so if you're going to go spend money on this fruitless worrying you might as well do something useful and talk to a professional psych doctor to figure out why you're obsessing over a no risk situation.
you have no risk. The only reason to see a doctor would be get reassurance that you had no risk.
There has only been one documented wound transfer and that took knife cuts deep lacerations, and flowing blood. That's what it would take. (Happened in Canada).
my situation is turning into a bit of a nightmare, i've been in a long relationship with my girlfriend and we'll get married very soon and thinking of starting a family with children, by having unprotected sex with her i would transmit hiv to her if i had it because of the event that i described, would you advise seeing a doctor for this sort of exposure?
any answers from someone else? this is really worrying me please help..
The mouth and saliva contain a lot of protein and enzymes that will neutralize the virus. This a medical study you can check on the internet.
Plus, HIV is a fragile virus that can only live in body fluids such as semen, blood, vaginal fluids. It can not live in air, saliva, sweat or tears
don't get me wrong but is there someone from the medical world that can answer this? i know that the survival of the virus depends on many things. is the mouth a hostile environment for the virus? and it gets inactive with air and saliva once it is inside?
No need for testing, you can not contract hiv this way