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Offline DanHame

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I would appreciate an answer .. I'm scared
« on: April 11, 2017, 09:20:57 am »
Hello, yesterday I had sex with a girl who had menstruation


I had wounds or cuts on my penis and at the base of my penis because of dry skin.

I want to know if there is risk of contagion, I use condon, but there was it stained of blood in base of my penis where I have some cut and wounds .

I cleaned myself blood that actually had inthe base of my penis. That is confirmed that it stained me in my wound.

Is there risk in that case? I'm scared and I want to know, can that blood infect in this case?

I read on the internet that if blood falls in a wound there may be contagion and blood is much more contagious than other fluids :(

Thank you..

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Re: I would appreciate an answer .. I'm scared
« Reply #1 on: April 11, 2017, 09:29:48 am »
Hi, There was no risk in this encounter, you were protected by a condom.
The blood at the base of your penis was not risk either unless the the wounds were significant and in need of medical attention. 

Also body fluids are not infectious once exposed to air.
If this was your only concern it is safe to move on.

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Re: I would appreciate an answer .. I'm scared
« Reply #2 on: April 11, 2017, 09:40:38 am »
Hello Wade,

Many thanks first of all

I wanted to clarify that the cuts were Skin cuts  Small but visible I even think they were not bleeding but I'm not sure,I can be calm and follow my life sure that there was no risk?

Sometimes it is easy to panic when reading on the internet and to See what they say that if there is contagion in situations of blood with wound

In a case like this you need very large wounds Blood stained?

Best reggards, Dan

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Re: I would appreciate an answer .. I'm scared
« Reply #3 on: April 11, 2017, 09:43:41 am »
You can relax, there was no risk in what you described.

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Re: I would appreciate an answer .. I'm scared
« Reply #4 on: April 11, 2017, 10:44:01 am »
Hello wade, this will be my last doubt and I promise not to ask anything else and to go ahead for sure.

In the link you have In his signature of information "HIV Transmission and Risks" I have seen the following:

" HIV enters the body through open cuts, sores, or breaks in the skin; through mucous membranes, such as those inside the anus or vagina; or through direct injection. There are several ways by which this can happen: "

not equal to my case that you say there is no risk ? true?

When you solve this doubt, I promise to follow my life and to listen to you, thank you very much for your help and support. Sorry for insisting.

Greetings And have a nice day,

Dan

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Re: I would appreciate an answer .. I'm scared
« Reply #5 on: April 11, 2017, 11:23:47 am »
Those risks are purely theoretical and do not apply to you, and as I also stated body fluids are not infectious once exposed to air.
Test for peace of mind if you do not believe me and you can expect a negative result.

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Re: I would appreciate an answer .. I'm scared
« Reply #6 on: April 11, 2017, 12:30:19 pm »
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" HIV enters the body through open cuts, sores, or breaks in the skin; through mucous membranes, such as those inside the anus or vagina; or through direct injection. There are several ways by which this can happen: "

No because you also have to put context behind it and Wade has done that nicely for you.  If the cuts and the sores where on the top of you penis during unprotected intercourse it could be a route of infection

However day to day contact and sexually nobody has been infected by HIV from spillage (contact outside the human body) this makes sense and even this covers trust me the strange fear you have as well.

HIV is very fragile and so much so that well, nobody has been infected by it outside the human body through contact and this makes sense going back to basics for a moment HIV has an outer protein/receptors that are needed to remain infectious and they corrode on contact with air, so it can no longer infect.

This even poses a great problem to study it, and laboratory studies such as the ones at the CDC labs have to use unnaturally high and artificial laboratory-grown concentrations under precisely controlled and limited laboratory conditions to even study it, as it normally simply does not survive long in outside the body.  (Ask a lab how they do it, if you want to know more on how they artificially grow HIV as that part is beyond me)

Now the fact that in labs they can keep HIV viable outside the body has caused some people to misunderstand this to mean environmental risk is possible. This is not the case as the labs use artificial conditions and concentrations of HIV many times greater than than anything ever found in patient specimens, the amounts of virus studied are simply not found in nature, and again no one has been infected with HIV this way.

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