By Blue Rose on Thursday, 9 of April , 2009 at 5:21 pm
This is the continuation of the safer sex guidelines 1.
Use spermicides containing nonoxynol-9. This is the active ingredient in most spermicides sold in the United States. It’s actually a mild detergent that destroys HIV by bursting its protein membrane. It also kills microbes that cause other STD’s, including herpes, gonorrhea, syphilis and trichomoniasis. Generally, in fact, protecting yourself against AIDS with spermicide and condoms also protects you against a whole host of other STDs as an added bonus.
Herpes genitalis(When symptomatic, the typical manifestation of a primary HSV-1 or HSV-2 genital infection is clusters of inflamed papules and vesicles on the outer surface of the genitals resembling cold sores
Beware of open sores. Open sores increase risk. In order to infect a new host, the virus must somehow enter that person’s blood stream. Normally, intact, healthy skin provides a nearly insurmountable barrier against HIV. Even if you get some infected blood or semen against your skin, this is almost invariably safe. But if you have open sores on your genitals or in your mouth, the virus has a portal of entry directly into the bloodstream. Studies of homosexual men have shown that those with herpes, syphilis or chancroid (all STDs that produce open sores if untreated) are at greater risk of becoming infected with HIV than men who are free of genital ulcers. This is also why unprotected anal, intercourse, which tears the lining of the rectum, is one of the riskiest of all sexual behaviors.
Can HIV penetrate the mucous lining of the vagina, rectum or mouth if there are no cuts or sores? The answer to this is not known, because it’s never been tested in humans (and, for ethical reasons, never will be). To protect yourself, whatever the answer: Use condoms.
Syphilis(is a sexually transmitted disease caused by the spirochetal bacterium Treponema pallidum subspecies pallidum
Syphilis lesions on a patient’s back
Avoid high-risk practices. Being on the receiving and of unprotected anal intercourse is probably the riskiest sexual practice of all. (Don’t forget, though, that both partners are at risk in anal intercourse). Even using condoms is not entirely safe: With vaginal intercourse, about 1 in 100 condoms will break, but with anal intercourse, 10 in 100 will break, studies have found.
Worldwide, probably the most common mode of transmission is unprotected penis-in-vagina intercourse. Again: Don’t do it without using spermicide and a condom.
Don’t do unprotected sex with multiple partners, prostitutes or drug users. It’s also unsafe to have sex with someone who has had sex with multiple partners, drug users or prostitutes. Unfortunately, although it’s great to know the sexual history of your sex partner, the plain fact is that no area of life is more right with secrets – and – lies – than a persons sexual past. In one astounding study, 52 percent of sexually active HIV carriers admitted they had, at one time or another concealed their illness from a sex partner. So just because a sex partner tells you he or she hasn’t done anything risky doesn’t mean you can believe it.
vaginal syphilis(Secondary syphilis manifested perineal condylomata lata lesions, which presented as gray, raised papules that sometimes appear on the vulva or near the anus, or in any other warm intertriginous region.
Chancres on the penile shaft due to a primary syphilitic infection
When you ask people what they are doing to reduce their risk of getting AIDS, they often say, I’m being more careful about who I have sex with. But this is really very little help, because you simply can’t tell by looking at someone if they’re infected. After all, how do you think people are getting infected? They’re getting infected by having sex with people they think are not infected.
giant condom in Buenos Aires
By Blue Rose on Monday, 6 of April , 2009 at 7:11 pm
These days’ doctors tend to say there is no safe sex, only safer sex. Here are the basics for protecting yourself from AIDS while you continue to enjoy the pleasures of a healthy sex life.
Avoid sex practices that involve sharing body fluids. Nearly all safer sex guidelines come down to this, the most important single bit advice. That’s because HIV is spread when blood, semen or vaginal secretions from somebody who’s infected come into direct contact with the blood or bodily fluids of somebody who’s not infected.
HIV concentrations are highest in semen, breast milk and blood, including menstrual blood. HIV has also been found, in much lower concentrations, in women’s genital secretions. It sometimes found in saliva, in very low concentrations. And it has not been found at all in urine, sweat or feces.
Always use condoms. The best choice: lubricated latex condoms that are impregnated with spermicide nonoxynol-9. Lambskin condoms may feel good, but they don’t protect against HIV because they’re perforated with microscopic holes large enough to allow HIV to pass through. When a condom is lubricated, it’s protected against rips and tears and doesn’t break as easily as an unlubricated one. And nonoxyol-9 has been shown – at least under laboratory conditions – to kill HIV on contact. Women now have another option, the female condom, marketed under the brand name Reality and available in drugstore for about $2 apiece. But whatever kind of condoms you use, it’s important to use then consistently, even time you make love, not just when you feel like it.
this is an example of latex condom
this an example of female condom
If you use lubricant, make sure it’s water-based product, not an oil-based one. Oil-based lubricants cause latex to rapidly disintegrate into a gummy mess that offers no protection against AIDS (or pregnancy, for that matter). Contact with petroleum products destroys condoms. Don’t use: Crisco, baby oil, cold cream, Vaseline or certain vaginal creams like Monistat, Premarin or Vagisil. Do use; K-Y Jelly, saliva, spermicidal creams or commercial lubricants like Astroglide, Lubraseptic or Lubafax.
this is the Astroglide commercial lubricants
When is it to stop using condoms in a relationship? That’s the 100,000 dollar question.
If you’ve been in a monogamous relationship for six months, and you’ve both tested and certain you’re HIV negative, I’d say it’s probably okay to stop using condoms. Of course, you still can’t be absolutely certain you’re safe.
Two possibilities why you can’t be absolutely sure you’re safe in such a relationship: The body develops antibodies HIV (which is what the test measures) usually somewhere between two weeks and three months after exposure. You could have been tested after you were infected but before antibodies appeared (which means the test would have been negative). Or else one of you picked up the virus from somebody else after both of you were tested.
In this advance time we are very much prone to different kinds of sickness, there is a proverb saying “it’s better to prevent than to cure.” I still have the 2nd issue for safer sex guidelines, wait for it.
By Blue Rose on Sunday, 5 of April , 2009 at 6:18 pm
How and where can I get AIDS?
All is not bleak, however. Even though there’s still no vaccine for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which causes AIDS, and no cure for the disease itself, it’s not that hard to completely shield yourself from the risk of becoming infected. HIV is actually quite difficult to catch.
Just to clarify: There are only four basic ways you can get AIDS:
- - by using needles tainted with HIV-infected blood;
- - through transfusions or other exposure to tainted blood or blood products;
- - by fetal transmission, from a mother to a baby;
- - through unprotected sex.
By far the most common mode of transmission is sex – AIDS is primarily a sexually transmitted disease (STD). And you are the one who controls your sexual behavior.
You simply cannot get it from casual, nonsexual contact. There’s no evidence HIV has ever been transmitted by shaking hands, hugging, kissing on the cheek, crying, coughing or sneezing. You can’t get by donating blood. You can’t get it from mosquitoes, dogs, cats, toilet seats, office furniture, pools or hot tubs. And in studies of families in which one member had AIDS, there’s no evidence of transmission even though family members shared foods, utensils, towels, cups, razors, and toothbrushes and even kissed each other, according to the Surgeon General’s Office.
How can I know that I’m infected of AIDS? What are the symptoms?
Very briefly, though, once person is infected, the virus enters the white blood cells, mainly those called T4 cells or T-helper cells (are a sub-group of lymphocytes (a type of white blood cell or leukocyte) that play an important role in establishing and maximizing the capabilities of the immune system), “rewrites” the cells genetic blue print and changes it to its own blueprint. In a deadly turn about, the virus transforms this cells that were meant to protect the body into a factory for manufacturing more HIV. In this way, it can over-whelm the body’s defenses with amazing speed.
This is the Kaposi’s sarcoma (skin cancer)
Shortly after the initial infection, a person may experience a flulike illness (fever, swollen lymph nodes, aching joints or muscles, diarrhea). This is followed by a period in which they feel quite healthy but probably contagious. During this period – usually from 2 to 12 weeks after infection – they will test positive for HIV antibodies in their blood. Often there’s a period of latency, also during which the individual is contagious but shows no symptoms. This period sometimes lasts nine or ten years. Ten the virus begins spreading like mad, and when it does, the immune system is rapidly devastated, laying the individual open to attack by conditions such as Kaposi’s sarcoma (a rare skin cancer) or a certain type of pneumonia, Pneumocystis carinii, that has become one of the calling cards of AIDS.
Suffice it to say that everyone – especially people who are sexually active outside of stable, long-term relationship – needs to know the meaning of “safer sex.”
this is the Pneumocystis carinii (a form of pneumonia caused by the yeast-like fungus, Pneumocystis jirovecii)
Our world today is very much advance and it will be advance also for you if you know the safer sex guidelines. I will bring it up on my next issue, it’s very important so you must wait for it.
By Blue Rose on Thursday, 2 of April , 2009 at 1:39 pm
In response to Mr. Muscle’s question:
Is it safe to do sexual intercourse with my girlfriend when she’s having her menstruation?
Surely menstrual blood is no more magic than any other kind of blood. But there may actually be a bit of wisdom behind these ancient taboos. Normally, as a protective mechanism against bacterial invasion, the vagina stays fairly acidic (pH of 3.5 to 4.0). But during menstruation, blood’s higher alkalinity slightly reduces the vagina’s acidity (to a pH of 5.0 or so), making it more susceptible to vaginal infections. Menstrual blood flow also flushes away some of the mucus that normally plugs the cervix, making it easier for microbes to invade the uterus and the deeper reproductive regions.
If neither partner is infected with anything, there’s no reason to worry that making love during her period will increase the risk of infection. But if he already has an infection, the couple should abstain from sex during her period. (Serious vaginal infections generally make themselves known by itching, burning, an unpleasant odor or vaginal discharge; they should be seen by a doctor right away.)
If the woman is carrying around some minor-league vaginal infection, her mate also runs a small risk of picking up urethritis – a painful, although usually not serious, infection of the urethra, or urinary drainpipe. The most serious worry of all, though, is AIDS. Since having sex during menstruation directly exposes the male to potentially infected blood, if she is a carrier of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) she must not have sex during her period.
I hope i did help you. thank you.
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