MARTY:
hello.I mixed my water bottle with a person's water bottle whom I dont know at all.I was staying in a guesthouse during a trip..And there were other people who stayed in the same room with me and ı didnt know they were staying there beforehand .It was a guesthouse and 5 people were staying in the same room.I bought a water bottle and put it in rhe fridge.And there was another water bottle in the refrigerator just like my bottle and a woman who stays in the same room with me drank it and she didnt use glasses to drink water.She drank directly from the bottle.And one hour or forty minutes later ı accidentally drank from her bottle instead of my own bottle..While ı was drinking water from her bottle ı poured water into a glass and drank it.Can ı be infected with hiv ıf the mouth of the bottle had blood on it and this blood dropped in the water which ı drank ? And the bottle was closed with bottle .cap. Can The bottle cap prevent exposure to air and cause me to have hiv infection ııF there was blood on the mouth of the blood due to the previous user of the water?Can coldness of the water increase hiv survivality in the environment and outside the body?.Do ı need to test for this incident
Jim Allen:
You drank water from someone's water bottle.
Zero HIV risk and no amount of "what ifs" could make it a risk. Move on with your life!
Common Myths About How HIV Is Spread https://forums.poz.com/index.php?topic=68441.0
5 of the weirdest HIV transmission myths https://www.beintheknow.org/news-and-blogs/5-weirdest-hiv-transmission-myths-ever
In brief, your adult HIV risks are:
* Condomless intercourse & a minute (theoretical) HIV risk if you give a blowjob. * Sharing drugs rigs (Syringes) * Blood products/ transfusions (Rare nowadays in most nations thanks to screening)
That's it.
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 and get vaccinated against HPV, Hepatitis A & B.
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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MARTY:
hello.I want to ask some questions and want to learn more about hiv survivality in refrigerator.I had written another post about this subject two months ago and ı still have some doubts which make me very unhappy and anxious about hiv infection by this way. I drank water from a plastic water bottle which didnt belong to me and was in the refrigerator for one hour or forty minutes.I am aftaid that ıt might have blood on its mouth under the cap because ıt wasnt mine and owned to somebody else whom ı dont know at all and ı mixed my bottle with hers . I want to clarify three things about my old post. 1.Can hıv stay infectious in blood on the mouth of a water bottle which was closed with a water cap in the fridge? 2.Does cold environment like inside fridge keep it viable on the mouth of a plastic water bottle ? 3.And can ı be infected with hiv ıf my lip which had a wound on it contact with the water from this bottle? 4.I drank water from this bottle by pouring on a glass .Can drinking this way make the virus dilluted ıf there is any viable one on the bottle. 5.Do ı need to test over this incident ? 6.Does hiv virus die once ıt is outside the confines of the body no matter what the condition is (except drug rigs . sexual contact and blood transfusion).Thank you very much for the great help that you have been giving.
leatherman:
although all your hypotheticals mean nothing different than what you already posted, let me clear up your confusion about HIV transmission
--- Quote from: Jim Allen on September 26, 2024, 11:19:20 am ---* Condomless intercourse & a minute (theoretical) HIV risk if you give a blowjob. * Sharing drugs rigs (Syringes) * Blood products/ transfusions (Rare nowadays in most nations thanks to screening)
That's it.
--- End quote --- Jim already posted the only ways you could get infected by HIV. That's because once outside the body changes in temperature, humidity, etc. cause HIV to degrade and die. Transmission by condomless sex is because HIV isn't exposed outside the bodies of the couple. Transmission by injection needle is because the blood in the syringe isn't exposed to air, although changes in temperature will start degrading HIV quickly. Transmission by blood products is because the blood is in a sealed bag before being injected straight into a body.
Each of these transmission methods is because blood or semen is injected straight into someone else without being exposed to air and/or temperature, humidity changes.
In your situation, the moment someone's blood or semen left their body, HIV was destroyed. Even if that someone was infected with HIV, that blood or semen would not have been a potential infection risk to anyone else. As Jim often says, move on with your life. Only unprotected vaginal/anal sex or sharing injection needles is a risk of HiV.
MARTY:
So HIV loses its infectivity in the blood the moment somebody drinks Water from the bottle( before putting in the fridge and before ı drink it)and coldness of the Water and refrigerator doesnt have any effect on hiv longer survival because it isnt alreafy viable anymore and ı can't ne infected with HIV for this reason.Can I say I dont need any HIV test for this incident