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Author Topic: is hiv infection possible through mixing water bottles in the fridge  (Read 1492 times)

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Offline MARTY

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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

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Re: is hiv infection possible through mixing water bottles in the fridge
« Reply #1 on: September 26, 2024, 11:19:20 am »
You drank water from someone's water bottle.

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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.

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Re: is hiv infection possible through mixing water bottles in the fridge
« Reply #2 on: December 01, 2024, 05:32:46 am »
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. 
       

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Re: is hiv infection possible through mixing water bottles in the fridge
« Reply #3 on: December 01, 2024, 06:16:14 am »
although all your hypotheticals mean nothing different than what you already posted, let me clear up your confusion about HIV transmission
* 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.
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.
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Re: is hiv infection possible through mixing water bottles in the fridge
« Reply #4 on: December 01, 2024, 07:08:00 am »
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

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Re: is hiv infection possible through mixing water bottles in the fridge
« Reply #5 on: December 01, 2024, 07:22:13 am »
Asked and answered already.

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Re: is hiv infection possible through mixing water bottles in the fridge
« Reply #6 on: December 01, 2024, 10:19:41 am »
So HIV loses its infectivity in the blood the moment somebody drinks Water from the bottle
You keep mentioning the refrigerator, but the refrigerator doesn't even matter. Matter of fact, the water bottle doesn't even matter. HIV dies the moment it is outside someone's body. Viable HIV was never on the water bottle, even if blood was present, and that means there would have been no HIV to survive to being in the refrigerator. Unless HIV infected blood or semen is injected directly into you, you can not be infected with HIV.

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