Contact with friend who is HIV +

[rb3077]

I was with a friend who is HIV positive. We did not have sex or even do what I consider kissing. We were sharing a tabocco. After a while to conserve the tabocco, my friend inhaled the smoke, and then exhaled the smoke into my mouth. We did this about three times for about, I guess, three seconds each time. I did have have a small canker sore inside my upper lip. I did not have any blood in my mouth and my friend's mouth did not seem to have any blood either. After this engagement I have become paranoid. 1. Could I have contracted HIV from my HIV + friend in this manner? 2. Does the inhaling of smoke from my friend's mouth transmit HIV? 3. I have been tested using the OraQuick Advance Rapid test at 31 days and again at 63 days (9weeks). Both time negative. 4. Are those two negative tests definite? Thank you.

[H. Hunter Handsfield, M.D.]

Relax.  If HIV could be transmitted by such exposures, it would be 100 times more common than it is and would not be classified as an STD.  Among non sex partners who live in the same households as HIV infected people, regularly sharing eating utensils, bathrooms, etc, not one has ever acquired HIV.  Your canker sores make no difference; people have sores in or aound the mouth all the time, yet non sexual contact of the sort you describe doesn't result in HIV transmission.

You didn't need HIV testing, which was a waste of money, time and emotional energy.  However, your negative test results are reliable and you certainly do not need further testing.  I hope your HIV infected friend doesn't know about your behavior, which from his or her perspective is pretty disrespectful (although I know you didn't mean it that way).  

Select your sex partners wisely, use condoms for sex in non-monogamous settings, and avoid sharing injection equipment with other people. Do those things and you will never get HIV, no matter what else you do.  But this sort of stuff is nonsense.

Regards--  HHH, MD

[H. Hunter Handsfield, M.D.]

Are you serious?  This is getting ridiculously speculative.  I suppose CPR would carry some risk, not so much because of "kissing", but because CPR often involves pretty intense exposure to blood and other body secretions.  However, since you cannot possibly have acquired HIV from the non-exposure events you described in your question, there can be no HIV risk from performing CPR on you.

This thread is over.

[rb3077]

Can HIV be transmitted through CPR? My friend, who is HIV positive, and also happens to be certified in CPR. If I were alone with him and something were to happen to me, and he gave me mouth to mouth CPR, would that be a risk? Does that carry the same low risk as mouth to mouth kissing?Thanks.

[rb3077]

Thanks for responding. I was just worried that inhaling smoke that had been inside my friend's mouth and traveled though his lungs could have been contaminated with HIV.