HiV risk fast food restaurant

[Sacred_exposure]

Hello,

I am scared if below encounter poses a hiv risk?

Few weeks ago I had a big cut on my lip. I stopped by a fast food restaurant and got food. As I was having my food, the cut on my lip opened up and I started bleeding heavily.

I am worried about below 2 exposures -

I am worried if the sandwich had some blood on it from the person who prepared it and since it came into contact with my active bleeding wound, would I be exposed to hiv?

Someone dropped off some napkins on my table and I used it against my bleeding wound to stop it.  If the person who dropped it off the napkin had fresh blood and if it got into the napkin and since i used the napkin against the bleeding wound, am I at risk for hiv?

Sorry if I am being ignorant but there was only few minutes from the fresh blood on sandwich or napkin coming into contact with my bleeding wound. I read that the virus can survive outside the body for few hours.

My lip bleeding was heavy and it took few minutes to stop. Do I need to get tested? I started having a sore throat from fifth week after this incident.

[Jim Allen]

Hiya,

Read your post three times; what you posted here was zero HIV risk to you. Move on with your life.

Here's what you need to know to reduce your HIV risks:
Use condoms for anal or vaginal intercourse correctly and consistently, with no exceptions. Consider talking to your healthcare provider about PrEP as an additional layer of protection against HIV

Keep in mind that some sexual practices described as safe in terms of acquiring HIV still pose a risk for other easier-acquired STIs. So please do get tested at least yearly for STIs, including but not limited to HIV, and more frequently if condomless intercourse occurs.

Also, note that it is possible to have an STI and show no signs or symptoms; testing is the only way to know.

Kind regards

Jim

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[Sacred_exposure]

Thanks for the reply.

But if there was any fresh blood on the napkin or food and if it came into contact with my active bleeding would that cause a risk?

I have been having a mild on and off sore throat.

Unfortunately I was heavily bleeding from my lip and it is causing me anxiety.

[Jim Allen]

Its not an HIV risk to you.

[Jim Allen]

Your concern lacks all the biological and environmental conditions needed to acquire HIV. HIV is fragile; once exposed to the environment outside the human body, the receptors corrode, leaving it unable to infect.

In short, as an adult, you can't get HIV from food; this concern is a popular myth that has been extremely harmful to people living with HIV and has been around for as long as I can remember.

https://www.beintheknow.org/news-and-blogs/5-weirdest-hiv-transmission-myths-ever (See myth 2 & 4)

Common myths: https://forums.poz.com/index.php?topic=68441.0

Please don't post about this again as I will consider it excessive and ban you for the forums.

Anyone who continues to post excessively, questioning a conclusive negative result or no-risk situation, will be subject to a four week Time Out (a temporary ban from the Forums). If you continue to post excessively after one Time Out, you may be given a second Time Out which will last eight weeks. There is no third Time Out - it is a permanent ban. The purpose of a Time Out is to encourage you to seek the face-to-face help we cannot provide on this forum.

[Sacred_exposure]

Thanks for your comments for the risk of exposure from food.

Is it safe to assume that there is no risk from napkin coming into contact with my bleeding wound even if it had blood on it?

[Jim Allen]

Asked & answered already. As warned, you now have a 28-day ban from the forum.

Your concerns lack all the biological and environmental conditions needed to acquire HIV. The only way you could acquire HIV whilst visiting a fast food restaurant would be if you engaged in sex or shared syringes to inject drugs. So use condoms for any intercourse, and don't share syringes.

Anyone who continues to post excessively, questioning a conclusive negative result or no-risk situation, will be subject to a four week Time Out (a temporary ban from the Forums). If you continue to post excessively after one Time Out, you may be given a second Time Out which will last eight weeks. There is no third Time Out - it is a permanent ban. The purpose of a Time Out is to encourage you to seek the face-to-face help we cannot provide on this forum.