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hello again, it's tom again.
because my gum bleeds a little sometimes (i don't know when..) what if my saliva contains an extremely low amount of blood....and if i'm infected..will my mom be infected? thank you again.
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Answer:
by Georgan Gregg: ()
Hi Tom. Remember, I said it has to be visible blood? And even if this hypothetically infected blood was in saliva, the real question is: how is it going to get into your mom? If you’re sharing potato chips or the like it’s still casual contact & therefore no risk. Assuming that you are not having sex with your mom or sharing injecting drug needles, there is no way for that to happen.
HIV has to get into your blood stream. That’s why injecting drug users who share needles are at extremely high risk for being infected with HIV & a host of other nasty things. But also, there’s risk from needles that are shared for injecting into muscle, like steroids & other drugs that those trying to speed up bodybuilding might use.
Sexually, the blood in saliva could potentially pass HIV during tongue-in-mouth or French kissing. If the uninfected person has sores or otherwise damaged mouth tissue, this would allow easy entry into the blood stream for HIV. Likewise, a man being fellated (mouth on penis sex) could be at risk of infection. How? The mucous membrane of the head of the penis & the entry to the urethra (pee hole) is more porous that the skin on an arm or leg. HIV would have a chance of getting into the blood stream while the mouth on penis sex happens.
And the same risk goes for mouth on vagina or anus. HIV must be present in blood, semen or vaginal fluids AND have a way to get into the blood stream. It’s penetrative sex or injecting drug needles that are risky, Tom. Not sharing a snack.
Keep learning!Reviewed by: Patricia Fawver Ph.D. in Sexology
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