Can One Contract Diseases If One Drinks From An Open B12 Container?

Posted on Sun, 3 Sep 2017

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Question : i left my b12 container open since i am drinking the b12 any hiv hep b,c risk if roaches crawl to the inside container

Answered by Dr. Sankaranantham Murugan (1 hour later)

Brief Answer:
Hepatitis B and C not be transmitted through contamination and oral route

Detailed Answer:
Hi,
Welcome to HCM.
Thanks for posting your query.
Hepatitis B and C can be transmitted only through body fluids (blood transfusion or exchange of body fluids). This can not be transmitted through oral route. They can not survive outside the body fluids. It cannot contaminate any eatables when kept exposed.
Dr S Murugan

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Raju A.T

Follow up: Dr. Sankaranantham Murugan (6 hours later)

thanks can roaches transmit hiv hep b,c?

Answered by Dr. Sankaranantham Murugan (19 minutes later)

Brief Answer:
Transmission through cockroaches is unheard

Detailed Answer:
Hi,
Welcome back.
Transmission of hepatitis B and C through insects or cockroaches is not possible.
Dr S Murugan

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Vaishalee Punj

Follow up: Dr. Sankaranantham Murugan (3 hours later)

that includes hiv?

Answered by Dr. Sankaranantham Murugan (3 hours later)

Brief Answer:
It is very much applicable also to HIV infection

Detailed Answer:
Hi,
Welcome back.
Of course, it is applicable very much also to HIV. HIV is comparably less contagious than that of Hepatitis B and C infection. All these three 'H' infections are transmiscible through blood transfusion and exchange of body fluids. Transmission of HIV can occur only through the following routes.
1. Sexual transmission
2. Blood transfusion
3. Sharing of needles and sharp objects
4. Parent to child transmission
All other modes of transmission is almost nil or negligible.
Dr S Murugan

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Raju A.T

Follow up: Dr. Sankaranantham Murugan (12 minutes later)

i bought ice cream in a box however the box was a little ripped and risk for hiv and hep b,c since i ate the ice cream

Answered by Dr. Sankaranantham Murugan (18 minutes later)

Brief Answer:
Not possible at all

Detailed Answer:
Hi,
Welcome back.
Don't imagine odd things.
If it could be transmitted through such ways, almost 80% of world population would be infected already with HIV infection.
Thank God, it is not transmitted through water, food, and other eatables like Ice cream.
It cannot survive in ice-cream even if you purposefully mix with that for even for a fraction of a second
Dr S Murugan

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Raju A.T

Follow up: Dr. Sankaranantham Murugan (39 minutes later)

the ice cream was sealed in a paper how ever the box that had ice cream inside was ripped so no worry of hiv hep b,c doc

Answered by Dr. Sankaranantham Murugan (8 hours later)

Brief Answer:
No possibility.

Detailed Answer:
Hi,
Welcome back.
No such possibility of transmission.
You are safe from Hepatitis B and C and HIV infections.
Possibility of transmission of Hepatitis A can not be ruled out, especially when there is absolute hygienic procedures are not following while preparing or packing or handling and definitely not with HIV, Hepatitis B and C.
Dr S.Murugan

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar

Follow up: Dr. Sankaranantham Murugan (43 hours later)

my vioiln touched the train floor on a train and i put my chin on my vioiln to play any hiv hep b,c risk since i had some cuts on the chin from shaving since the vioiln touched the train floor any hiv hepatitis risk

Answered by Dr. Sankaranantham Murugan (4 hours later)

Brief Answer:
No such possibility for HIV transmission

Detailed Answer:
HI XXXXXXX
Welcome once again.
HIV can not remain viable over the train floor and it can not contaminate violin. HIV transmission through inanimate objects can not occur. Even in the presence of a cut over your chin and it touched with your violin there is no possibility of getting HIV through this means. (If such a possibilities are there so many innocent children would have been affected by HIV).
Dr S.Murugan

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar

Follow up: Dr. Sankaranantham Murugan (31 hours later)

what about hbc hcv

what about hep b and hep c

Answered by Dr. Sankaranantham Murugan (50 minutes later)

Brief Answer:
Not likely

Detailed Answer:
Hi,
Welcome back.
HBV and HCV are transmitted only through exchange of body fluids.
In your case transmission of these diseases also unlikely.
Dr S Murugan

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Kampana