Please, help me.Why is it advised not to share toth brush with an Hiv positive person?
Where is the claim that the virus is ';dead'; once it leaves the body??? The virus is transmitted when an infected person shares bodily fluid with the fluid of another person. The virus isn't magically dead if it leaves the body - it exists within the fluid. This fluid can remain on the bristles of the toothbrush and toothbrushes are notorious for penetrating the gum walls of the mouth thus proving an effective way to the person's bloodstream (the other person's fluid - blood)
Also note that small traces of fecal matter can also be found on a toothbrush that has been left out on the sink or somewhere close to an open toilet. If the toilet seat is open when you flush, then small amounts of fecal and urine matter can travel up through the air and land on convenient places - like an exposed toothbrush. I'm not saying all fecal matter has the HIV virus, but storing your toothbrush inside the cabinet and NOT letting ANYONE else use it - would prevent unnecessary infection from various pathogens.
More information on the subject and especially on transmission methods can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV#Transmi鈥?/a>Why is it advised not to share toth brush with an Hiv positive person?
HIV virus dosent immediately get killed once coming out from the body, so after brushing the teeth, if the saliva is still left in the tooth brush (even in small amounts that you can not see)and someone else uses that brush, the virus can go into that other person's mouth, body and blood, thus infecting the other person too.....so it is adviced not to share tooth brush with an HIV positive person....besides
sharing a tooth brush with any person is dirty!!!
Can a person get HIV from using someone's razor or toothbrush?
It is possible to get HIV from using someone ' s razor or toothbrush since these items can cause cuts and scrapes, and may contain blood from the infected person. It is wise to avoid sharing personal items that may come into contact with another person's blood.
There is one documented case of a child becoming HIV infected by sharing toothbrushes with parents who were both HIV infected. Transmission probably occurred from blood left on the toothbrushes.
(http://www.albany.edu/AIDS/aids101_2.htm鈥?/a>
How well does HIV survive outside the body?
Scientists and medical authorities agree that HIV does not survive well outside the body, making the possibility of environmental transmission remote. HIV is found in varying concentrations or amounts in blood, semen, vaginal fluid, breast milk, saliva, and tears. To obtain data on the survival of HIV, laboratory studies have required the use of artificially high concentrations of laboratory-grown virus. Although these unnatural concentrations of HIV can be kept alive for days or even weeks under precisely controlled and limited laboratory conditions, CDC studies have shown that drying of even these high concentrations of HIV reduces the amount of infectious virus by 90 to 99 percent within several hours. Since the HIV concentrations used in laboratory studies are much higher than those actually found in blood or other specimens, drying of HIV-infected human blood or other body fluids reduces the theoretical risk of environmental transmission to that which has been observed - essentially zero. Incorrect interpretations of conclusions drawn from laboratory studies have in some instances caused unnecessary alarm.
Results from laboratory studies should not be used to assess specific personal risk of infection because (1) the amount of virus studied is not found in human specimens or elsewhere in nature, and (2) no one has been identified as infected with HIV due to contact with an environmental surface. Additionally, HIV is unable to reproduce outside its living host (unlike many bacteria or fungi, which may do so under suitable conditions), except under laboratory conditions; therefore, it does not spread or maintain infectiousness outside its host.
(http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/pubs/faq/faq35.ht鈥?/a>
why would you want to use someone else toothbrush??????
plus i think? HIV has to be air born like 24 hrs before it dies... ( i think )
Any time you share ';body fluids'; with some one with HIV, you run the risk of getting the virus.
If you do not wear a condom, and refrain from ';french kissing'; your partner, you still may not be safe...
There are many ways to share fluids, crying and things like that.
I would go to a doctor and get checked immediately...
I wish you well...
Jesse
it isn't killed instantly once it leaves the body. I can take up to a week for the virus to die completely. So if someone uses a toothbruch daily it isnt going to be safe to use. Most people think it is the saliva that you don't want to come in to contact with there but it really is the blood. Alot of people have gum disease or brush too hard or whatever the case may be and then have blood on their brush and you DEFINATELY DO NOT want to come in contact with any form of HIV positive blood inside or outside of the body!
DONT do that pls.....it is advised not to share a tooth brush with everyone ohk? you shudnt share it with any1 and i think you shud follow that advise
DO NOT share anything with HIV Positive persons, Especially anything to do with bodliy functions.
DON'T DO IT.
In the event there are cuts on the gums or abscessed tooth.
my dear,
why... do you want to share your toothbrush to anybody else even if they dont have hiv's? dear, its a good hygienic practice not to share your toothbrush to anybody else... you are cleaning your own backyard, would you like your cleaner to be shared to anybody else...
and besides, its not advice because you can transfer hiv's mucous to mucous... which means if your toothbrush is not treated well, you might as well got an hiv... but take note, you'll need few more gallons of a person's saliva to be infected... would you wait to get to that situation?....
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