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Urine
I was cleaning my toilet after I had a friend over and I was wearing latex gloves and a sweatshirt. It had been like 4 hours since she had used the bathroom. I was wondering if I accidentally got some of the urine on my sweatshirt and it touched a small cut on my cuticle if I can catch HIV. Is it in urine? Would the virus be dead after 3 or 4 hours? Please answer
if there was blood in the urine would I still be ok? it had been 3 hours. please reply
sorry i didnt mean to annoy anyone i have questions to and I have the right to post them. What may not be a concern to you is a concern to me. If people have nothing nice to say or some productive advice then dont reply. Sorry for offending people I'm just scared all of the time and anxious all of the time.
Holy cow, jitters has lots of threads about HIV from spots of blood on cereal boxes, spots of blood on toilet seats, urine splashing up from the toilet bowl, etc. Stuff like that, anyway. It's almost kind of annoying for people like me who had a real risk with real symptoms and am waiting fearfully for my test results.
Read the previous threads by jitters, lol. Youll get a good laugh, dont take them seriously.
THANKS SO MUCH for the response and all of the information. :) You helped me a lot
Your risk is zero. If it were possible to have a risk less than zero, it would be you. HIV absolutely cannot be transmitted through urine, it can't get in through a cut (unless it's a very fresh cut), and it can't survive in a toilet or in any other exposed place for more than a few seconds, much less than three or four hours. You cannot get HIV this way.
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