Kissing - Risk for HIV?!
Question: Is kissing risky at all for the passing on of HIV/AIDS? I have asked this question so many times, and get different answers! Is it correct that both partners need to be both bleeding from the mouth to contract the virus? Is it correct that you need to get a lot of saliva in the cuts/abrasions/ulcers to contract the virus or is it correct that your saliva dissolves the virus in the affected person's saliva and kissing is not a risk what-so-ever? This is so confusing, and all I want is a straight answer.
Answers: Is kissing risky at all for the passing on of HIV/AIDS? I have asked this question so many times, and get different answers! Is it correct that both partners need to be both bleeding from the mouth to contract the virus? Is it correct that you need to get a lot of saliva in the cuts/abrasions/ulcers to contract the virus or is it correct that your saliva dissolves the virus in the affected person's saliva and kissing is not a risk what-so-ever? This is so confusing, and all I want is a straight answer.
No kissing is not really a risk factor although HIV is spread by exchange of bodily fluids as you rightly say this would require infected fluid/blood accessing an open wound.
You would have to swap some considerable amount of saliva very regularly, whilst suffering broken ulcers or other wounds in the mouth for you to have anything more than the most marginal risk.
In other words you are at higher risk of getting run over whilst walking on the pavement, dying in an air crash, or crashing your car than getting HIV this way.
No.
Don't take the chance
kissing on the lips yes if you have an open sore
1) no
2) no
3) no
You don't have anything to worry about.
Relax.
No At allll....
and if that true, every one will have HIV 10 time a day....
go man and kiss as much as u can, that refreshs ur hear....
it is technically possible but highly improbable,nobody has been proven to have caught hiv by this means as yet.
To get HIV from saliva only you will need to consume 2Liters of someones saliva. There is a risk of getting HIV if the one infected has an open wound in the mouth and you kiss. You will then be exposed to their blood. Doesnt matter if you have a wound or not, youre swallowing the virus directly so you could get infected.
You would have to transfer a lot of saliva whilst kissing to pass on the virus. The only risk is from possible blood contact during open-mouthed kissing.
My advice is dont kiss anyone you suspect of HIV
Shake hands instead.
You would have to ingest a gallon of his saliva to contract it that way. No kissing if anyone has open sores bleeding or not. Oral sex is also a no no. Getting tested is free in most clinics. Also your parents don't have to know. A family member died of AIDS. I watched him whither away into nothing. BE CAREFUL. NO GUY OR GIRL IS WORTH THAT!!!!
actually hiv is a disease which mainly affects ur wbc(white blood corpuscles ) count in ur blood stream ..
so this disease affect on through blood transfer .... kissing which ever part of the body is no problem of a hiv blessed person ... but make sure, not even a drop of blood is in touch with u .... mouth might carry wounds like ulcer and all ...so...
hiv - when is tranferred needs a host body to survive .... it usually gets killed in open air for more than three seconds (avg)...... and once affected ... ur body resistant power gets weaker as months fly by ....in other words ur immune system is getting deteriorated ..
If you are asking, then you are wondering if you are at risk from the person that you are thinking of kissing. Before you consider putting your own person at risk, maybe you should think of asking the person if there is anyway if they could be infected with the HIV virus. You both can get tested, and at alot of places the test is now based on income status. If the person does have the virus it is likely that they do have open sores in their mouth if they are not being treated, and your risk of catching the virus is there. If they have the virus, but they do not have open sores then your risk is minimum. You have to be aware of the person you are with, and willing to protect your person, no one can do that for you.
very unlikely that it would happen; highly impossible but you might not want to take the chance though...
Absolutly not!! You cannot contract HIV?Aids from saliva!! Now if there were a sore that were bleeding that MAY be a different story!!
In order for transmission of HIV through kissing you would need to consume a gallon of a person's saliva or both partners must have serious cuts in their mouth, and even then its not a sure thing for transmission. The risk of transmitting HIV through kissing is extrememly extremely extremely extremely low to almost none. Simple mouth to mouth contact will not do anything. I have never read a case in which someone recieved HIV through only kissing. I have read cases of transmission through extensive dental word, but in those cases, the dentist knew what he was doing by infecting the patients. HIV is mainly transmitted through unprotected vaginal and anal intercourse, needle use, and mother to baby. Hope this helps.
Saliva renders AIDS Virus inactive.
Check reference
So I guess its safe.
I've read it has been passed one time this way, out of the tens of millions of other infections. So the odds must be low... but present.