Cut on Finger

Hi Dr.

A few brief questions.

1. I was fingering a girl, I know this is a low risk activity but after I finished doing this to her, no more than 2 minutes I realized I had a few cuts by my fingernails, I guess from something else during the day, can I catch HIV or anything from this exposure?

2. I was also kissing her, deep kissing & the day before I cut my inner cheeck eating hard pretzels, does this cause a danger to catch anything? It was not bleeding but it was red & I was just curious your thought on that.

3. Lastly, On the head of my penis, the rim part, there are two small white looking things, is that warts? I was told they do not appear there & cysts are normal in that area, What do you think. Thank you & hope you had a great Labor Day weekend!

[H. Hunter Handsfield, M.D.]

1) The risk is very low, cut or no cut, and I doubt anybody ever acquired HIV that way; and the chance she has HIV is low as well.  But no specific data are available and I can't make any further comment. I do not think you need HIV testing.

2) Kissing risks no STD, except oral herpes (which isn't an STD); and certainly not AIDS.  There are no data to indicate that the risk rises if there are open sores in the mouth, but even when people have HIV, saliva typically does not contain infectious virus.

3) With apology, I can't tell from that description whether what you have is a wart or something else.  It depends on such things as the size, precise location, and presence or absence of associated symptoms.  I might be able to tell more with a more detailed description.  (But from what you say, it doesn't sound like any of the common STDs.)

Good luck--  HHH, MD

[scaredstraight68]

Im not the doc but

1: unless ur finger was gushing blood and she was on her period your risk in near 0

2: 0 chance.  Saliva is a killer of HIV, too much bacteria in the mouth.

[Deedesign]

She did not have her period, I would of known & I am sure she would of never let me do that is she did.  I was not gushing any blood but I had little blisters by my nails, it was soar though & red, but not bleeding, (i think) if I sqweeze my fingers no blood comes out, so I hope that was a good sign.