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HIV Prevention (Expert Forum)
A small question about the past question
by hockeyfan1398, Jul 09, 2009 01:43AM
I have recently got a scare out of me when i find out during my massage one of the girl had a cut on her hand and that i also have a deep cut on my feet.
But as i read many of the forum i come to one of the past question which i feel much safer. Dr EWH quote
" When we get cuts they start to heal at just about the time they stop bleeding and with that healing process any risk of introducing HIV also goes to zero."
So doctor my question to you is even if there is a cut let's say on her hand and she is hiv positive, assuming the time she massage me must have been 30 minute before she goes down and massage my cut at my lower body, is 30 minute enough of a small cut to on the process of healing so that HIV can not transmitted?
Thank you for your time!
But as i read many of the forum i come to one of the past question which i feel much safer. Dr EWH quote
" When we get cuts they start to heal at just about the time they stop bleeding and with that healing process any risk of introducing HIV also goes to zero."
So doctor my question to you is even if there is a cut let's say on her hand and she is hiv positive, assuming the time she massage me must have been 30 minute before she goes down and massage my cut at my lower body, is 30 minute enough of a small cut to on the process of healing so that HIV can not transmitted?
Thank you for your time!
Doctor's Answer
by H. Hunter Handsfield, M.D., Jul 09, 2009 02:43AM
, Jul 09, 2009 02:43AM
Relax. I do not accept those assumptions; she probably didn't have HIV. If there is no visible blood being smeared around, or wet blood going into a wound, then no HIV transmission is likely. Look at it this way: there are millions of massages every day around the world, and everybody has cuts on their fingers and elsewhere on their bodies from time to time. There have to have been millions of events when such lesions came into contact with one another, with one of the two people having HIV. Yet not one person has ever been known to acquire HIV in this manner. You're not going to be the first.
No shared needles, plus condoms for vaginal and anal sex means no HIV risk. Other kinds of personal contact do not transmit HIV and you should not be worried about them.
Take care-- HHH, MD
No shared needles, plus condoms for vaginal and anal sex means no HIV risk. Other kinds of personal contact do not transmit HIV and you should not be worried about them.
Take care-- HHH, MD
