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How long HIV survives in the mouth?
While jogging in a local park today, I met another guy and I gave him oral sex for 20 minutes or so. I don't know his HIV status. He didn't ejaculate in my mouth, but there as a lot of pre-***. After we were done, I jogged for more 1 hour. When I got home, before even drinking water or washing my mouth, grab a protein bar to eat. While eating, I bit my inner lip and it bled a lot. My question: assuming the guy was HIV positive, assuming there was some leftover pre-*** in my mouth, could the HVI virus have survived for more than 1 hour in my mouth and passed into my blood stream? One more time, the cut from lip biting was 1 hour after oral sex, not before. Important to note that I didn't drink any water or brush my teeth after I gave him oral sex. Oral sex, pre-*** in my mouth, jogging for 1 hour afterward, the a deep cut from lip biting.
Any answer, please. Shoul I look for PEP?
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You had no risk for HIV and PEP and even a test would be a waste of time. There are only 3 ways HIV can be transmitted and you didn't do any of them.
HIV is instantly inactivated in air and also in saliva which means it is effectively dead so it can't infect from touching, external rubbing or oral activities. It doesn't matter if you and they were actively bleeding or had cuts at the time either because the HIV is effectively dead.
Only 3 adult risks are the following:
1. unprotected penetrating vaginal with a penis
2. unprotected penetrating anal sex with a penis
3. sharing needles that you inject with. Avoiding these 3 are all you need to do, to protect yourself against HIV. The situation you describe is a long way from any of these 3.
Even with blood, lactation, cuts, rashes, burns, etc the air or the saliva does not allow inactivated virus to infect from touching, external rubbing or oral activities. No one got HIV from what you did in the last 40 years, and likely no one will get it in the next 40 years of your life either. The above HIV science is 40 years old and very well established. Doctors have calculated the risk from what you did to be less than that of being hit by a meteor.
Dead virus can't infect.
HIV is instantly inactivated in air and also in saliva which means it is effectively dead so it can't infect from touching, external rubbing or oral activities. It doesn't matter if you and they were actively bleeding or had cuts at the time either because the HIV is effectively dead.
Only 3 adult risks are the following:
1. unprotected penetrating vaginal with a penis
2. unprotected penetrating anal sex with a penis
3. sharing needles that you inject with. Avoiding these 3 are all you need to do, to protect yourself against HIV. The situation you describe is a long way from any of these 3.
Even with blood, lactation, cuts, rashes, burns, etc the air or the saliva does not allow inactivated virus to infect from touching, external rubbing or oral activities. No one got HIV from what you did in the last 40 years, and likely no one will get it in the next 40 years of your life either. The above HIV science is 40 years old and very well established. Doctors have calculated the risk from what you did to be less than that of being hit by a meteor.
Dead virus can't infect.
In other words, if I get sperm in my mount from a HIV positive person, and I neither swallow or spit it, the HIV virus does not survive in the mouth for 1 hour, right?
Reread about instantly and the 3.
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