friend needs help and I want to but.......

[Holliee]

Hello I have very important question please help me out. I have a good friend and I known her about yr now and only been to her house one time and here's why one she has an awful mean husband that don;t like her to have ppl over but thats not bad part. She has 26 animals 11 outside big unfriendly dogs that only she can interact with which is ok, 6 inside little dogs and 6 or7 inside cats now she lives in older 2 bedrroom 2 bath trailer which is fine but once you walk in door all you smell is cat pi$$ awful and her house is a plum mess something you would see on tv hoarders that bad. She loves her animals and takes care them but not house. She has Hep B and Hep C which is fine but she ask me last week if I would come over wednesday on my day off and help her clean house I told her I would but my friend told me that I should not because I could catch someting help Hep B or bring parvo home to my saint bernard (she has had many dogs in past die from parvo and they burried outside in back yard... Is this possible to catch something or is my friend being over scared. I want to help her clean up she asking for help It's so bad that her 2nd bathroom the tub is used as a litter box wow . Now I am a very very clean erson I'd planned on wearing gloves etc... what do you all think any advise please help me I don;t want to do something that would hurt myself or my dog,,

[KiaKaha]

Hi hun... I'd be more worried about getting toxoplasmosis from the cats!!!
If you wear gloves you'll be ok for the other stuff. I tend to agree that it sounds like a job for the professionals...
Good luck! It sounds like a HUGE job!:o)

[worried878]

Hepatitis B is the blood borne disease like HIV..Hep B kills way more people/very slowly/ than HIV./which is also very slow due to the new meds they offer them cos it is known as a gay disease and minority ights are being infringed upon and that means tax payers will step up to the plate via govt taxes..an HIV patients meds are over $10,000 a month in some cases/tax payers pay a large chunk of those costs..a hep-b patient gets little help if any cos it is not considered a gay disease/altho it is very similar to hiv in regards to transmission of the disease.. .altho it does not have the gay stigma attached to it like HIV does..it can still be deadly...not like u die right away but u have problems here and there hep-b/and become extremely ill and die/ and others dont really have any true problems/alcohol is a no no ofcourse when the liver is involved.....previous liver condition has lots to do with it/genetics/drinking and pill habits etc...
Hepatitis C is not a strain we worrry bout too much and it escapes me right now but I think C is caught thru bad water/bad foods like oysters and that is not blood borne like hep-b/there are now 5-6 types of hepatitis and i havent looked at the different types as of late so it escapes me at this time...health care workers are usually offered free hep-b vaccinations at any emplyment place so that shows it is an important concern

Like HIV..hep-B can be transmitted sexually//a body fluid disease where body fluids are affected making it a sexually transmitted disease as well...hep-b lives for days on a surface if blood or body fluids were there/hence bleach to clean anything like that..HIV cannot live outside the body but a milisecond..must be directly passed via sex, needles, infusions etc...it will not live on a toilet for days like hep-b will..it is rare people catch hep b in the HC field but most are vaccinated..it is a choice tho...vaccinations r free at the board of health..i know 2 women married to an hep-b patient with no infection...it is like u r prone or u r not..google and learn...getting that 3 series of shots at the board of health is a good idea for anyone cos hepatitis is really more rampant by far than HIV in this country..and like i said some have very little symptoms or problems..some do
I hate to add this..but in the US pharmaceutical companies seem to rule!  hep-b vaccinations came out fairly quicky..have been around at least 30 yrs cos that is when i got mine..now all that is available to an hiv patient is tons of meds eachday that do not cure..only serve to slow down the progression of the disease and in the meantime, many continue to infect others.
Sexually it is highly usual for a female to give HIV to a man as there r only minute traces of the virus in vaginal fluids...a man catches it from a woman/as a rule/ by sharing needles...hiv is rampant in semen and blood...little or none found in saliva, tears, or vaginal fluid..if a female is not a junkie and was sexually active with a male,  then she caught the disease either from a junkie male, a bi-sexual male or from a blood transfusion and that rarely happens anymore due to strict testing of blood bags before administration to a person

Again I stress Hep B is more worrisome than HIV cos it can live outside the body and HIV needs to just about directly exchanged via body fluids or needles....alot of the risk for HIV transmission also goes with who is inducing the trauma/not calling sex trauma!  LOL...but a male is causing more invasive type trauma to a female during intercourse than vice versa..another example..2 gay males...the one who serves the female version for anal sex is being more invaded/traumatized than the one who plays the male roll in that scenario and does not have his anus invaded as the anus is extremly vascular..lots of blood vessels compared to the vagina...a female is at more risk if a man had hep-b or HIV, if anal sex was oart of the scenario vs vaginal penetration...with anal sex the risk of a small tear in the anus is very real due to the nature of the anal canal itself

did not mean to do a lecture on stds!  I work with people daily with both of these diseases and have never contracted it...u know this person has hep-b..but there r probably more u know that have it as well///they may not even know they have it as i stated//not everyone gets symptoms for it..but hep-b in a way can be a STD,  The chance of u catching it being a friend is next to nothing unless u have sex with the person and this person is a man/making risk higher if u had anal sex with the person..my next door neighbor has it and she comes over and vice versa.i dont worry bout things like that too often as i am exposed so much in my line of work and am hiv and hep b free so far..dont lose or neglect a friend over this......i wouldnt have sex with the person or exchange needles with the person..other than that..there is really no risk or we would all be infected

think about everytime u use a public bathroom, or a water fountain, a public phone...list goes on and on

sorry but the topic is a pet peeve of mine!  LOL

[dominosarah]

I think this is a job for professionals.  I would be way to nervous about catching something.