Hazards of the oral sex - to take care!

What risk do you suppose the oral sex?
The probability that HIV is transmitted from a seropositive person to a zero negative you depend on the contact type that have been given. A bigger transmission facility of HIV exists through a relationship of anal or vaginal sex without protection (that is to say, without condom), to not share injectable material sterilized or in mother's vertical transmission to son.

You have been demonstrated that the oral sex is the less chancy activity of all these practices, but clearly it is not exempt of risk. Also, you suit to remember that other illnesses of sexual transmission, as the syphilis, the herpes and the gonorrhea, they can be transmitted easily through the oral sex.

Some years ago some studios were published on the risk of transmission of HIV through the oral sex. An American studio showed that of 122 men gay with HIV, 8% pointed out that the oral sex was your only practice of risk. Nevertheless, some of the entrants in this studio that initially manifested that the oral sex had been your only activity of risk, they admitted book credit anal maintained sex next without protection. A recent studio didn't find any case of transmission of HIV for oral sex in a 10 year-old period in more than tuneless 100 even zero, that is to say, one seropositive and another negative zero.

When is the oral sex chancier?
A risk exists bigger than transmission of HIV through the oral sex if the carrier suffers some illness of sexual transmission that have not been treated. An increased risk exists of being infected with HIV by oral sex if you are courts, wounds or abrasions in the mouth or in the gums, or if one has some infection, included those of sexual transmission, in the throat or in the mouth that are producing inflammation.

The viral load tests indicate that they can almost always be particles of HIV in the semen. To have a high viral load in blood can also indicate a high viral load concentration in semen, but not necessarily the other way around: although the viral load in the blood is undetectable, it cannot be it in the semen. Consequently, you are not safe to assume that taking therapy antirretroviral always decreases the infectious capacity of the semen or you are protected the sexual partners.

In the case of the vaginal flow the levels of HIV vary. These levels are probably even bigger in the period of menstruation: when the cells carriers of HIV come off of the cervix, you are a balance of probabilities that they are in the vaginal flow, together with the blood. Therefore, the oral sex would be chancier during the period of the menstruation.

How can they decrease the risks?
Many ways exist of reducing the risks in the oral sex. Naturally, for each person, some will be more acceptable than other, for that that each one debit side to make your own decision on the risk level that consider acceptable. If you want to speak of this topic, you request an appointment with an agent of health or with another professional of the health of your treatment centre or genitourinary clinic. Many of the following strategies can also offer protection against other illnesses of sexual transmission:

* You can decide that the risk of the oral sex is sufficiently low for you and to continue regularly with your practices.

* You can opt to not having oral sex because you not even want to run a low risk of transmission of HIV

* You can decide to reduce the number of even with who oral practical sex.

* You can decide to have oral sex with barriers protectors like the condom for the oral sex with men or the latex (dental dams) square for oral sex with women.

* You can decide not to ejaculate in your partner's mouth / to or that they don't ejaculate in your mouth.

* You can decide not to have oral sex with a woman while your menstrual period lasts.

* You monitor your mouth. The probability of transmission of HIV for via oral it is increased if they have bleeding gums, you ulcerate, cut or mouth sores. Before practicing oral sex, you avoid to brush yourself without stopping the teeth or the use dental (you prevent the microrrupturas in the gums).

* You go to regular revisions of sexual health. You would allow you to identify if you have an illness of sexual transmission that could increase the probability of transmitting HIV to a partner negative sexual zero, and to reduce the probability of contracting HIV if you are negative zero.