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Rubbing my eye after touching public washroom faucet
I went to the women's washroom at school. I washed my hands then touched the faucet. Then I used the hand that touched the faucet to rub the inner corner of my left eye. Will I get hiv that way?
Thank you so much, mommy2one07 and hangon51. I'll totally stop worrying about hiv now.
" I'm a little OCD now"
Really? A "little?"
You need to address your irrational fear on how HIV is and is not transmitted.
Really? A "little?"
You need to address your irrational fear on how HIV is and is not transmitted.
You will never have to worry about hiv if you do not share drug works or have unprotected sex outside of a monogamous relationship where both are negative. . Hiv can not survive outside of its host, or on objects.
Thank you, mommy2one07. I'm a little OCD now. I tried to recall all the things I might have done to cause hiv. I never had sex, never shared drug needles. BUt I sometimes go to washroom without washing my hands. I popped pimples without washing my hands. I did many of these small things. Do I have 0 change of getting hiv?
Not possible at all. Hiv in not spread by contact with innate objects. Hiv is spread by: unprotected sex, mother to child, sharing drug works (needles).
I'm worried there is vaginal fluid on the faucet. And the fluid contains hiv. How possible is that I get hiv this way?
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