What is the main route of transmission of AIDS?

"Doctor, do I have AIDS?

"Don't be anxious, speak slowly.

"I kissed someone of the opposite sex last night, and when I woke up this morning, my whole body was itchy. I checked online and it seemed like I had AIDS.

“HIV is almost never transmitted through kissing, and even if you are infected with HIV, symptoms will not appear so quickly.

"Really? I saw on the Internet that kissing can spread AIDS.

Will kissing spread AIDS? What are the main ways of spreading AIDS? Is there a risk of contracting AIDS if you kiss with your tongue? Let's discuss this topic together.

The HIV virus exists in human body fluids such as blood, semen, vaginal secretions, breast milk, amniotic fluid, prostatic fluid, and wound exudate. Sweat, saliva, urine, tears and other body fluids contain no or very small amounts of the HIV virus.

How does AIDS spread from one person to another? To put it simply, there is an exchange of bodily fluids, that is, the bodily fluids of an HIV-infected person enter the body of an uninfected person.

We have learned about the transmission routes of AIDS from some popular science works or on the Internet. There are three transmission routes of AIDS, namely sexual transmission, blood transmission and mother-to-child transmission.

Sexual transmission - During sexual intercourse, men secrete prostatic fluid and ejaculate semen, and women secrete vaginal fluid. Since it is the male's genitals that enter the female body, the probability of male transmission to female is usually 10 times that of female transmission to male. If condoms are used throughout, correctly, and every time during sexual intercourse, there is basically no exchange of body fluids, so AIDS is basically not transmitted. The probability of correctly using condoms to prevent the sexual transmission of AIDS is over 99%.

Blood transmission - The scope of blood transmission is very wide, such as blood transfusion due to disease, kissing that causes oral mucosal damage and bleeding, sharing syringes for drug use, etc. When men have sex, the rectal mucosa will also bleed due to damage. Usually, we attribute the transmission of men's homosexual behavior to sexual transmission, but it can also be attributed to blood transmission. It is precisely because the rectal mucosa ruptures and bleeds during men's sex that the risk of HIV infection is much higher among men who have sex.

Mother-to-child transmission - Women infected with HIV may transmit HIV to the fetus during pregnancy, childbirth, and breastfeeding. Therefore, pregnant women infected with HIV must undergo cesarean section and artificial feeding. During pregnancy, antiviral treatment is required to minimize fetal infection.

Can kissing spread AIDS? Generally speaking, kissing will not spread AIDS! However, if both parties have oral ulcers and blood is exchanged, there is a possibility of HIV infection; if deep French kissing, tongue kissing, etc. cause oral mucosa damage and bleeding, there is also a risk of HIV infection; polite kissing will not spread AIDS.

My friends, please believe in science, take AIDS seriously, prevent AIDS, and don't panic too much about AIDS.