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Confusion over eye exposure
Hello,
I was hoping a few of the experts can clarify sone of the confusion around eye exposure! I had an exposure small amount of bodily fluid in the eye. On other sites such as the CDC, The Body and more they say it is a risk and people have become infected in this manner, can I get a few responses?
Thank you
I was hoping a few of the experts can clarify sone of the confusion around eye exposure! I had an exposure small amount of bodily fluid in the eye. On other sites such as the CDC, The Body and more they say it is a risk and people have become infected in this manner, can I get a few responses?
Thank you
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I'm not going to debate this with you. No one has ever gotten HIV from getting semen in their eye.
Perhaps you should take your own advice that you posted to another poster?
Perhaps you should take your own advice that you posted to another poster?
I have researched only creditable sites, such as the ones I mentioned to begin the thread!
Semen can actually have more HIV virus in it at times than blood which is still not fully understood! If a HIV patient has undetectable levels in blood it's plausible to have greater levels in bodily fluids I.e. Semen!
Semen can actually have more HIV virus in it at times than blood which is still not fully understood! If a HIV patient has undetectable levels in blood it's plausible to have greater levels in bodily fluids I.e. Semen!
Why are you doing "research"? That's the problem with internet searching....WAY too much info to sort through, some of it inaccurate, some of it outdated, and some of it overly conservative.
And, you cannot compare an eye splash exposure with blood to getting a drop of semen in the eye....apples and oranges.
Getting semen in the eye is not a risk for HIV.
And, you cannot compare an eye splash exposure with blood to getting a drop of semen in the eye....apples and oranges.
Getting semen in the eye is not a risk for HIV.
Hi Nursegirl,
After doing more research I keep finding discrepancies! I understand the main ways it is transmitted but from the more I read it's possible to contract outside the host from ocular exposure albeit rare. The CDC quotes the Ocular risk at 0.09% approx. 1 in 1000 for blood exposures.
I assume we do not see many cases like this bc they would normally be other sexual acts occurring, similar to Oral exposure. This way it is hard to disseminate which exposure actually was responsible for the infection as multiple exposures have take place.
After doing more research I keep finding discrepancies! I understand the main ways it is transmitted but from the more I read it's possible to contract outside the host from ocular exposure albeit rare. The CDC quotes the Ocular risk at 0.09% approx. 1 in 1000 for blood exposures.
I assume we do not see many cases like this bc they would normally be other sexual acts occurring, similar to Oral exposure. This way it is hard to disseminate which exposure actually was responsible for the infection as multiple exposures have take place.
I don't quite understand.
On the following thread:
http://www.medhelp.org/posts/HIV-Prevention/begging-for-an-answer/show/2158676#post_10293361
You posted a reply to the OP, now you're asking basically the same question?
Here's your reply:
Welcome back to the forum. However, based on your previous questions both here and on the STD forum, it seems you are overly concerned about low risk exposures. Here is all you need to know about avoiding HIV and other STDs: do not have unprotected vaginal, anal or oral sex with new or unknown partners without using condoms; and do not share drug injection equipment with other people. That's it. If you follow that guideline, and no other, you can expect to never catch HIV or other STDs.
There are no data on the risk of HIV from semen exposure to the eyes. However, among the millions of people with HIV world wide, nobody has been known or suspected to have caught HIV from semen in the eye. I cannot say the risk is zero, but obviously it is extremely low. And you describe a partner who seems to give reliable evidence he doesn't have HIV anyway.
Seems like you answered your own question?
On the following thread:
http://www.medhelp.org/posts/HIV-Prevention/begging-for-an-answer/show/2158676#post_10293361
You posted a reply to the OP, now you're asking basically the same question?
Here's your reply:
Welcome back to the forum. However, based on your previous questions both here and on the STD forum, it seems you are overly concerned about low risk exposures. Here is all you need to know about avoiding HIV and other STDs: do not have unprotected vaginal, anal or oral sex with new or unknown partners without using condoms; and do not share drug injection equipment with other people. That's it. If you follow that guideline, and no other, you can expect to never catch HIV or other STDs.
There are no data on the risk of HIV from semen exposure to the eyes. However, among the millions of people with HIV world wide, nobody has been known or suspected to have caught HIV from semen in the eye. I cannot say the risk is zero, but obviously it is extremely low. And you describe a partner who seems to give reliable evidence he doesn't have HIV anyway.
Seems like you answered your own question?
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