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I need an advice for my case.
Dear Doctor,
I am currently quite worried about my case. Last week, I went to a HIV Prevention Center to donate some funds to them. While talking to the officers there, I felt thirsty so I asked them for a water glass. Then I saw them taking a glass from a room where the children were infected with HIV were staying. At that time, I didn't pay attention to the fact that I was having a ulcer below my tongue.
My concern is if a certain child there was having the illness of stump bleeding and used the glass before I did, would I have any risk of HIV infection through my mouth ulcer as aforementioned? If yes, when should I need to undertake an HIV test? By what method?
I am honestly looking forward to your kind answer to my aforementioned case.
Best regards
Thanh Long
I am currently quite worried about my case. Last week, I went to a HIV Prevention Center to donate some funds to them. While talking to the officers there, I felt thirsty so I asked them for a water glass. Then I saw them taking a glass from a room where the children were infected with HIV were staying. At that time, I didn't pay attention to the fact that I was having a ulcer below my tongue.
My concern is if a certain child there was having the illness of stump bleeding and used the glass before I did, would I have any risk of HIV infection through my mouth ulcer as aforementioned? If yes, when should I need to undertake an HIV test? By what method?
I am honestly looking forward to your kind answer to my aforementioned case.
Best regards
Thanh Long
Best Answer
Your situation was never a risk of hiv transmission and any doctor will tell you the same.The Hiv virus is unable to reproduce outside its living host,it becomes inactive and therefore unable to infect.All the best.
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No, you wouldn't get HIV that way. Once HIV virus is exposed to the air, it will become uninfectious instantly under any circumstances including with mouth ulcer.
You therefore don't need to test because you had no HIV risk even the slightest.
No, you wouldn't get HIV that way. Once HIV virus is exposed to the air, it will become uninfectious instantly under any circumstances including with mouth ulcer.
You therefore don't need to test because you had no HIV risk even the slightest.
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