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- Medical Video: Does Kissing cause HIV Infection? Kissing & HIV transmission
- How to transmit HIV through kisses are many conditions
- HIV also cannot be transmitted through ...
- The way to transmit HIV is more risky than kissing
Medical Video: Does Kissing cause HIV Infection? Kissing & HIV transmission
The method of transmission of HIV is still often associated with free sex, drug use, and same-sex sexual relations. In fact, HIV can actually be transmitted to anyone even though they have never had sex and have never used drugs. HIV transmission to these unexpected people is somewhat affected by some activities that can actually transmit HIV, but never thought of before. One of them is through kissing. Why, how come?
How to transmit HIV through kisses are many conditions
HIV spreads from one person to another through the exchange of body fluids, such as vaginal fluids, semen, and / or blood. What about saliva, which incidentally also includes body fluids?
The HIV virus can be detected through saliva, but according to the CDC, the disease control and prevention agency in the United States, the HIV virus cannot spread through the saliva. It can be concluded that mouth kissing cannot transmit HIV - even if you and your partner who are diagnosed with HIV are involved french kiss which involves silat tongue and the exchange of lots of saliva. Because the saliva contains a combination of antibodies and natural enzymes that can prevent HIV from infecting healthy cells.
However, your risk of contracting HIV from your partner can increase if you have had canker sores or open sores in your mouth, lips, gums or tongue. This wound can be the entry gate for the HIV virus in the partner's saliva to enter your body. HIV transmission can also occur if your lips or tongue are accidentally bitten by a partner during a kiss. As long as there is no blood contact, and only saliva, the HIV virus will not spread.
However, the way HIV is transmitted through kisses is actually not that easy. Another thing that also needs to be considered is the fact that saliva does not contain enough active viral load (viral load) to be able to transmit the infection to other people.
HIV also cannot be transmitted through ...
- Swim in the same pool
- Use a towel, or use the same bath
- Sitting in the toilet which had been occupied by PLWHA
- Through animals. HIV is a virus in humans, cannot be transmitted through mother bites, for example from mosquitoes that have bitten people who have HIV and then bite people who do not have HIV.
- Hugging
- Shake hands
The way to transmit HIV is more risky than kissing
The risk of HIV transmission through mouth kissing can be said to be very small, as long as there is really no direct blood contact between the two parties involved.
HIV is more at risk of transmitting through unprotected sex. Because the number of active HIV viruses contained in semen, vaginal fluids, and rectal fluid (through anal sex) is quite high to cause infection.
HIV can enter the body through body parts such as the eyes or the nose, the lining of the vagina, the head of the penis, the mouth, and the lining of the anus and rectum. These layers tend to be wet and slimy which can mediate the transfer of the virus. Likewise in the blood, so that HIV can be transmitted through organ donors or virus-contaminated blood donors.
