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Can HIV Be Contracted Through Kissing?
Question: Can hiv enters through tongue kissing? Fingering causes hiv? Cuts on tongue (fissiory tongue) causes hiv? Pls ans me n help me, i have cuts on my tongue n i kissed a girl of unknown status.. i am tensed now aftr seeing my tongue, my dr said its fissory tongue n its common. Pls help me.... i am at risk? Do i need testing?
Brief Answer:
Your HIV risk is negligible only.
Detailed Answer:
Hi,
Welcome to HCM.
Fissuring of tongue is different from cuts or wounds on tongue. In fissuring there will not be any discontinuity of covering mucous membrane whereas in cuts, it will be so.
Saliva is non infectious under normal circumstances in a HIV positive individual. Only if it is contaminated with blood it becomes infectious.
That girl with unknown HIV status not necessarily a positive woman.
As per CDC, XXXXXXX Deep kissing carries a negligible risk for HIV transmission (neither high risk nor low risk).(http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/risk/estimates/riskbehaviors.html).
SO NOTHING TO WORRY.
DR S.Murugan
Your HIV risk is negligible only.
Detailed Answer:
Hi,
Welcome to HCM.
Fissuring of tongue is different from cuts or wounds on tongue. In fissuring there will not be any discontinuity of covering mucous membrane whereas in cuts, it will be so.
Saliva is non infectious under normal circumstances in a HIV positive individual. Only if it is contaminated with blood it becomes infectious.
That girl with unknown HIV status not necessarily a positive woman.
As per CDC, XXXXXXX Deep kissing carries a negligible risk for HIV transmission (neither high risk nor low risk).(http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/risk/estimates/riskbehaviors.html).
SO NOTHING TO WORRY.
DR S.Murugan
Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar
Sir, thanx for ur reply. I like to tell u this in detail and want to know some answers. (1) Fissiory tongue is not risky right? (2) I read that saliva kills hiv, is it true? (3) if a person have actively bleeding gums or actively bleeding blood in his mouth and other person have blood in her mouth then only hiv can be transmitted? Right? In my case i didnt had actively bleeding i am just concerned with cut like things on my tongue. (4) i read that deep kissing cannot transmit hiv, there is only 1 reported case whr both prople had bleeding gums, is it true? If it is true then i dnt need to worry right? M v tensed dr, pls help me when i saw my tongue 3 4 days ago m v tensed. I was not at risk na? Or i am over reacting? No need of testing na?
I ll appreciate ur answers.
I ll appreciate ur answers.
Brief Answer:
Your HIV risk is negligible only.
Detailed Answer:
Hi,
Welcome back.
1 Fissuring of tongue does not pose any additional risk for HIV.
2. Saliva contains an enzyme called as Lyzozyme which is inimical to HIV.
3. Oral diseases (ulcers, gingivitis etc.) increase the HIV transmission risk to a little extent. Absence of oral injuries with you poses little or almost nil problem.
4. Deep kissing carries a negligible risk.
So you need not worry.
Dr S.Murugan
Your HIV risk is negligible only.
Detailed Answer:
Hi,
Welcome back.
1 Fissuring of tongue does not pose any additional risk for HIV.
2. Saliva contains an enzyme called as Lyzozyme which is inimical to HIV.
3. Oral diseases (ulcers, gingivitis etc.) increase the HIV transmission risk to a little extent. Absence of oral injuries with you poses little or almost nil problem.
4. Deep kissing carries a negligible risk.
So you need not worry.
Dr S.Murugan
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Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar
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