Could you catch this from a toilet??

Question:

Is it any way possible to catch HIV from a toilet? For example if you are using the toilet and the water splashes up on your butt/other parts, could you catch the HIV like this?? I think you could, cause if someone with HIV had used the toilet and some of their germs remained there and just happened to splash on you, you could get it?? Seriously what do you think? Am I right?

Answers:
No you cant...even if u inject the water inside of you ..you still will not catch it. The virus start to dies soon after being exposed to oxygen and the way it is transmitted is through body fluids or blood. Your being paranoid but I understand I get like that too just know it can not be caught that way. Try to avoid public toilets because there are some diseases that can be caught by sitting on them. Or use those protective seat covers or simply HOVER!

nope
the HIV/AIDS virus dies when it comes into contact with oxygen

No. HIV can only be transmitted by direct swapping of bodily fluids, ie, blood, semen.
Germs in the toilet bowl water don't contain the HIV virus, and even if they did you can't absorb it through your skin. Even if some of the toilet water got inside your body, it's still not going to carry the disease through the germs, blood or semen would have to get into your body for you to be infected.
The only way it would be possible is if an HIV infected person sat on the toilet seat, and left some blood on it, and then you sat down, had a cut, and some of the blood got into the cut you had. Even then it's not a sure thing that it would be enough to infect you!
The things you need to worry about are safe sex and drug use mainly.
Hope this helps.

You sure sound paranoid! I have never heard of anyone getting HIV from a toilet seat but hey, ya never know.

There have been no documented cases of HIV transmission via the method you described. HIV is a bloodborne pathogen, which means it is spread via body fluids that may contain blood.

Yes, urine may contain microscopic amounts of blood, but you would have to splash the urine directly into nonintact skin on your own body. Even then the chance you would seroconvert (get HIV) is just as microscopically small.

The CDC has prepared a Fact Sheet that addresses questions like this. Please read about this at http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/resources/factshe...

Seriously, stop worrying about it.

Could you catch this from a toilet??

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