HIV from urine on a toilet seat?!
Question: I know that this sounds crazy but I have to ask.
I was at my local mall and I had to go to the restroom so bad.
I know that having OCD and a chronic phobia of HIV holds me back from using public restrooms regularly but I REALLY had to go.
I got into the stall and what unbuttoning my pants and noticed that there was a drop of pee on the seat. I was in a frantic hurry to go to the restroom that I forgot to even "hover" over the seat and I just plopped down to go to the restroom.
When I shave, I get little bumps on the back of my thighs and then I pick at them....they weren't bleeding or anything but I am nervous because what if this pee had HIV in it and then it got into one of these bumps?
What if this pee had microscopic particles of blood in it that got into one of my open bumps.
I do not know how long this was sitting on the seat before I came along. However, the bathroom was full of people and out of the 3 stalls, this one was the only one open.
I'm scared!
Answers: I know that this sounds crazy but I have to ask.
I was at my local mall and I had to go to the restroom so bad.
I know that having OCD and a chronic phobia of HIV holds me back from using public restrooms regularly but I REALLY had to go.
I got into the stall and what unbuttoning my pants and noticed that there was a drop of pee on the seat. I was in a frantic hurry to go to the restroom that I forgot to even "hover" over the seat and I just plopped down to go to the restroom.
When I shave, I get little bumps on the back of my thighs and then I pick at them....they weren't bleeding or anything but I am nervous because what if this pee had HIV in it and then it got into one of these bumps?
What if this pee had microscopic particles of blood in it that got into one of my open bumps.
I do not know how long this was sitting on the seat before I came along. However, the bathroom was full of people and out of the 3 stalls, this one was the only one open.
I'm scared!
you can't get hiv from a drop of pee on a toilet seat
That is your INTUITION talking to you. Always listen to it and never listen to the liberals and their "reassurances" about AIDS and HIV (the world's first politically protected disease).
The disease is in a PC status because it was brought into the world and spread into the population by the homosexuals. That's why everyone wants to downplay any danger or cautious behavior on on the part of sensible people such as you.
Check out the writings of Dr. Lorraine Day, former San Fran surgeon. She has revealed the facts, and ignore the lies about her on the search engines.
Urine is sterile and HIV dies off once it hits the air.
You shouldn't be scared. This was a common misconception of how HIV spread years back. Turned out that HIV is not present in urine, just blood and sexual fluids.
Holy crap. No, you're not going to get HIV from that. It's really not possible.
Your question is somewhat difficult to answer about the risk of infections through watersports (getting pee/piss/urine on or in your body). There are certain infections that are known to be spread through contact with urine, and there are also a lot of gray areas. Be careful of people who are not speaking from a purely scientific perspective: people who tout urine therapy as a cure-all and those who wave their finger at you because they think it is a "dirty" activity.
Urine, when compared to other fluids in the body, is relatively sterile. Urine is primarily comprised of water, urea (proteins and amino acids), uric acid, and other bodily waste products.
There is no known risk of HIV transmission through contact with urine in or on your body. HIV cannot always be isolated in urine, and if it is, HIV concentrations are too small to pose a threat of infection. Some conditions contribute to blood being present in a person's urine, which would contribute to a risk of HIV transmission.
Whether or not urine poses a significant enough risk to you will be for you to decide.
No...The virus can only live 14 seconds outside the human body
well there was a girl t my school who got pregnant because her brother masterbated and got some on the toilet seat and she went in right after him and sat in it so I guess it's possible
HIV is not carried in urine.
According to research you can get HIV only through sex contact or through blood transfusion. HIV will be easily weakened when exposed to sunlight. So you should not panic with possible contamination with urine on the toilet seat.
You won't get HIV like that. That kind of virus lives only nanoseconds in the air. I understand the fear, but don't let it drive you crazy or you might get panic attacks from that.
Only if said toilet seat is used during a particular sex act.
HIV is transmitted from body fluids, however there would be such a low risk of you contracting it from a toilet seat. It is a blood to blood or a body fliud to blood. There is such a minimal risk. Iwould not be concerned. That has happened to all of us. I think that you should call your doctor if you have anyother questions,
Scientists and medical authorities agree that HIV does not survive well in the environment, 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. (See page 3, Saliva, Tears, and Sweat.) 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 interpretation of conclusions drawn from laboratory studies have unnecessarily alarmed some people.
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.
Households
Although HIV has been transmitted between family members in a household setting, this type of transmission is very rare. These transmissions are believed to have resulted from contact between skin or mucous membranes and infected blood. To prevent even such rare occurrences, precautions, as described in previously published guidelines, should be taken in all settings "including the home" to prevent exposures to the blood of persons who are HIV infected, at risk for HIV infection, or whose infection and risk status are unknown. For example,
Gloves should be worn during contact with blood or other body fluids that could possibly contain visible blood, such as urine, feces, or vomit.
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