to Teak and some other knowledgable people

[fattu11]

Hi teak,

My case is indeed very similar to many others and especialyl the notorious "possible??" whom you might be remembering.
I met an asian girl (high risk). Didn't deep kiss or anything, just a lip-lip touch with drink transfer (beer, 5%) which
I spit at that instant only and when I looked at the spit there wasn't any visible blood.No hard spitting either, the drink probably just came out because of disgust. It still haunts me probably because of my guilt or there is actually some risk I don't know. There wasn't any other contact besides this.
It's been 11 days since then and I haven't had any symptoms as such except from day 3 to day 6 I had a bit of fever.
Do I have anything to worry about?  I have seen at quite a few places that you, dr HHH have mentioned that kissing even with blood is no risk, virus can not survive in this drink and without blood the risk is zero but I still needed some reassuarance from experts like you.
Could you please tell me if my logic is correct and I indeed have no risk based on this exposure and I should move on?

[nursegirl6572]

That's why you stop searching.  The good docs here on the expert forum do this for a living...they know the insides and outs of HIV...and no way is kissing a risk...not at all...not even a "low" risk which you keep saying.  HIV is a very weak virus and actually very hard to transmit....

STOP searching the web...you'll be able to find anything you want to fuel your anxiety.

[fattu11]

hmm, yeah i am. :)
i read a research paper which says that alcohol faciliates transmission of hiv through mouth. It also said that in alcohol > 4% hiv stains were killed immediately and then there was a site which said that it's a myth that alcohol kills HIV and the US govt doesn't say kissing is a risk because of some propaganda.

http://www.radioliberty.com/dec1.htm

For people like me who aren't well aware of all the issues and complexities it's hard to filter out wheat from chaffe.

[LIZZIE LOU]

move on...you do NOT have a hiv concern!!!!!

[fattu11]

hmm, thanks! and yeah, i am moving on. for the first 4-5 days i spent the entire time of my day including office hourse surfing on the net on various sites trying to find a similar situation and in the last 3-4 days I have more or less realised that my exposure was indeed close to zero but then i thought before i officially conclude that let me just ask some people. :)

[nursegirl6572]

Doesn't matter.  ANY aspect of what you describe carried NO risk.  NOTHING.

Your lips could have been on FIRE, and the answers will not change.

I hope you can move on.

[fattu11]

I re-read my post and i get that people might think that i am worried about sharing a glass, it's not that. she drank a bit from my bottle and transferred to my mouth which i spit immediately. the lip-lip contact was hardly for 2 seconds you can say.