Can you get aids from sharing cigarette with a patient?!
Question: Can you get aids from sharing cigarette with a patient.?
what if the tip was a lil bit slimy - can u get aids from it.?Health Question & Answer
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no unless you and the patient has a open wound inside the mouth and accidentally had blood contactHealth Question & Answer
No, if you cannot contract it from sharing a straw to drink a soda, why would you be at risk from a cigarette.? Saliva does not contain enough virus to pass the virus. So unless there was fresh blood on the butt, and you had fresh open wounds on the part of your lip that touched the butt, the answer is no, and even under those conditions, the risk would be near zero. But you would be at risk for things like a cold, flu, cold sores, and most other viruses that do not require blood transfer.Health Question & Answer
Well, it's the HIV virus you would contract, if it were possible. AIDS is the condition that develops as an effect of having the virus.
BUT, No, there is not enough of the virus in saliva. Even if it can be passed in saliva you'd have to be kissing the person for a LONG time, open mouthed, and passing a lot of saliva.
also the AIDS virus cannot live out in the air, exposure to oxygen kills it.Health Question & Answer
BUT, No, there is not enough of the virus in saliva. Even if it can be passed in saliva you'd have to be kissing the person for a LONG time, open mouthed, and passing a lot of saliva.
also the AIDS virus cannot live out in the air, exposure to oxygen kills it.Health Question & Answer
Saliva.
Though HIV is sometimes present in saliva, it apparently exists at very low concentrations. HIV can be in saliva because saliva contains T-cells and macrophages, which rove around the surfaces of the mouth's mucous membrane. The concentration of HIVs in saliva seems to be very low compared to blood and semen. Health Question & Answer
Though HIV is sometimes present in saliva, it apparently exists at very low concentrations. HIV can be in saliva because saliva contains T-cells and macrophages, which rove around the surfaces of the mouth's mucous membrane. The concentration of HIVs in saliva seems to be very low compared to blood and semen. Health Question & Answer
Probably not. We asked this question is class once if you could get AIDS by kissing someone, and they said not, unless they have an open wound in their mouth, so I think the same would apply here. I don't think the tip would have the virus on it, even if there was saliva. Health Question & Answer
The HIV string is not passed on in saliva alone, now if that person has an open sore in their mouth, that is different. small amounts of blood from the open sore could mix with the saliva and get onto the cigarette. so how about you use your own cigarette.? Health Question & Answer
highly unlikely. you cant get aids through saliva alone, unless there are open wounds in his mouth and the blood mixed in with the saliva and then you so happened to swallow it. come on be logicalHealth Question & Answer
Only if the patient was bleeding from the mouth, if the cigarette was in direct contact with a bloody wound on his lips for instance.Health Question & Answer
Very difficult to get but theoretically possible I suppose. Open cuts on your lips would increase the chance.
Your chance of dying from this action is probably increased more by smoking that cancer stick....Health Question & Answer
Your chance of dying from this action is probably increased more by smoking that cancer stick....Health Question & Answer
It's a possibility. As a health professional you'd know that even the tiniest cut or cracked bleeding lips could mix their saliva (which carries the virus).
When in doubt, pull out!Health Question & Answer
When in doubt, pull out!Health Question & Answer
Not transfered by saliva, ignore that other person's comment. I wouldn't worry. Try watching the film philadelphia, it will answer all questions that you have.Health Question & Answer
Aids is transmitted through blood, the only possibility of getting aids that way is if you were bleeding in your mouth and the patent was bleeding as wellHealth Question & Answer
that's just nasty! if the person has aids it could be possible. exchanging bodily fluids is one of the ways that aids is transmitted.Health Question & Answer
yeah you can but only if you had some sort of cut on your lips or hands that touched the cigarette slim....it is transferred from fluid....even an embrasion....just don't knowing share another cigarrette..okay.Health Question & Answer
no you cannot. impossible. You would need to drink more than 3 gallons of spit to get aids.Health Question & Answer
No.Health Question & Answer
you cant get aids from spit
just blood or ****Health Question & Answer
just blood or ****Health Question & Answer
no only if the person blood get inside you some howHealth Question & Answer
If that person has AIDS, you might be at risk. But the likely hood is pretty low. But anyone who has AIDS you are at risk...especially if you come into contact with their bodily fluids, whether its saliva or blood.Health Question & Answer