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Thank you for your answer (again) :) However, just last nite I had another scare. I have a small blister (white dot/piece of dead skill behind my lip, inside my mouth) yesterday from eating too much fried food from the nite before. Anyways, my friend and I was eating Japanese food and she had just taken her chopsticks out of her mouth and then immediately after she took food with it out of my noodle soup. The soup was still quite hot. She wanted to try my food. Anyways, I am quite worry now because of my blister in my mouth. It was sore everytime it rubbed against my teeth so I am worried that it’s an exposed wound susceptible to viruses (i can't tell if its an exposed wound or not, because its small and its also hard to see being its under my lip by the corner). I know for a fact that she has had multiple partners and she has not yet tested for AIDS. Should I be concern ? or should I not worry, since you said viruses do not live in food/plates. Anyways, I ate the food because I didn’t want to make a scene. Please advise. Thank you so much as ususal.
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by Konstance McCaffree: (05/19/2004)
Thank you for your question (again:-)). As you describe this next situation, there is nothing about it that you need to be concerned about. Even if you had a place in your mouth that was susceptible to receiving a virus as you described it, there is no way that the virus that represents HIV is able to be transferred that way. The HIV is very fragile. Anything that would be on the chop sticks from inside her mouth would be killed by several things. First, the saliva in her own mouth would kill any virus that she might have (that is why saliva in small amounts is not a transmitter - it is blood that is in the mouth that is!) Second, the hot soup would have killed anything. Then it would be exposed to the saliva in your mouth. Saliva is one of the most powerful agents of protection. It is made by our bodies to keep germs away as a first defense in soft tissue. Outside of the mouth we have skin, but in the mouth the soft tissue needs more, which is what saliva does.
You do not need to be concerned. I hope that you will look up and read more about STD/HIV transmission because you seem to be very fearful of the getting infected, and there are clear ways that science has determined how infection transfers. Blood, semen, breast milk and vaginal fluids are the major ones, and the other fluids in our bodies are not concerns.
Thanks for asking more questions, and feel free to ask more - and also look elsewhere so that you continue to educate yourself.Reviewed by Sexual Health Editorial Team
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