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Can I Contract HIV Through Drinking A Juice Which Is Contaminated With Another Person's Blood?
Question: Hi Doctor, Hope you are doing well.
Yesterday, I went to hotel for a lunch with my office colleagues, after had a lunch I ordered a orange sarbath juice with chill. The server who was a North Indian guy had a very very minimal cut in his finger and saw a very small open wound . He gave me that juice with that finger. Now I have a scared, that if what if some blood in his finger, get into juice and I drank and it transmit hiv?? In this way HIV can transmit? Please help with your answer. Thanks in advance.
Does HIV can transmit if HIV positive person blood is mixed in chilled juice and immediately if negative person drink the same? Please help with your answer. Thanks in advance
Yesterday, I went to hotel for a lunch with my office colleagues, after had a lunch I ordered a orange sarbath juice with chill. The server who was a North Indian guy had a very very minimal cut in his finger and saw a very small open wound . He gave me that juice with that finger. Now I have a scared, that if what if some blood in his finger, get into juice and I drank and it transmit hiv?? In this way HIV can transmit? Please help with your answer. Thanks in advance.
Does HIV can transmit if HIV positive person blood is mixed in chilled juice and immediately if negative person drink the same? Please help with your answer. Thanks in advance
Brief Answer:
Your HIV risk is almost nil
Detailed Answer:
Hi,
The hotel bearer was not necessarily a HIV positive individual. In India, the HIV prevalence is less than 0.25%. All the wounds are not necessarily bleeding wound unless there was a fresh injury.
HIV cannot survive outside the body fluids not more than few seconds. Moreover, HIV cannot be transmitted through food or drinks or through oral route (Exception oral sex- here too the risk is low) as there is an Enzyme called as Lysozyme in human saliva with is inimical to HIV As well as the gastric juice which contains Hydrochloric acid. Because of these reasons HIV is not transmitted through oral route, so you will not get HIV in this way.
Regards,
Dr. S. Murugan
Your HIV risk is almost nil
Detailed Answer:
Hi,
The hotel bearer was not necessarily a HIV positive individual. In India, the HIV prevalence is less than 0.25%. All the wounds are not necessarily bleeding wound unless there was a fresh injury.
HIV cannot survive outside the body fluids not more than few seconds. Moreover, HIV cannot be transmitted through food or drinks or through oral route (Exception oral sex- here too the risk is low) as there is an Enzyme called as Lysozyme in human saliva with is inimical to HIV As well as the gastric juice which contains Hydrochloric acid. Because of these reasons HIV is not transmitted through oral route, so you will not get HIV in this way.
Regards,
Dr. S. Murugan
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