I am freaking out. I am terrified of std’s and getting them. This might sound like a stupid question to some but is there anyway I could get the infection because we share the same bathroom. She has told me before that sometimes she uses my towel but she doesn’t tell me this until after I use it again and I am freaking out. Please give me any information you can. If this can be transmitted by sharing the same bathroom or sharing towels. I am extremely nervous. All advice or knowledge is appreciated.
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Skin-to-skin contact during nonpenetrative sexual contact may be a mode of genital HPV transmission, that doesn’t include dry towels and sharing a bathroom. When in doubt use a clean towel. However there a number of strains of HPV, is she being treated?
yes if you share drinking cups,tooh brushes,kiss ,but as far as the towels the odds are a million to one so i wouldn woory about it.
Ok….calm down. Please think. STD. You DO know what that stands for, right? Sexually Transmitted Disease.
THAT means you get it from having SEX. You do NOT get it from “sharing towels” or using the same bathroom, or sitting in a chair she sat in, or washing your clothes with hers or her drinking out of your glass. HPV is sexually transmitted. You are NOT going to catch this from your sister.
You have to think, ok. Do a little research before you get all freaked out.
Here are FACTS about HPV:http://www.cdc.gov/std/HPV/STDFact-HPV.h…
And here is info about other STDs:http://www.cdc.gov/std/default.htm
actually the chances are good that pretty much everyone will get once strain of HPV or another at some point of their life – warts on your body and feet are HPV as well. you do not say what kind of HPV she has, but most likely the chances of you getting it from her are so remote that they are not worth talking about. At this point you should be understanding and helpful to her – she told you that she has HPV and now you should help support her and her treatment
I have it so I know.
No you cannot.
If you are sharing a washcloth that she just used less than 5 minutes ago and has enough vagianal secretions on it maybe. The chances of that happening are so small it’s not enough to worry about. There has to be enough vaginal secretions on the washcloth the timing has to be right and so does the temperatures. Since most people don’t share their washcloth I wouldn’t worry.
Exposure to air kills the virrus within minutes. Hot water also kills the virrus. So you can’t get it from washed towels or anything like that. You can’t get it from dry towels she used either.
THE VIRRUS IS KILLED WITHIN MINUTES.
Ways you can get it.
Exposure to vaginal secretions from someone who has it through sex.
Exposure to semen from someone who has the virrus through sex.
Unprotected sex oral or vaginal or whatever other way there is these days.
When you have a strand of HPV that does not go away it causes your body to produce cancer cells on your cervix and in your uterus. It is a cancer making virrus. DID YOU HEAR THAT? CANCER. Tell your sister that she needs to reserch all she can of the virrus and know the strand she has. Different strands can cause the cancer growing process to increase. There are different strands. Certain ones cause cancer cells to either grow/fast/medium/and slow. SOME STRANDS CAUSE WARTS. You can have warts and not know it too. They can be inside your vagina. TELL her this K.
EDUCATE YOURSELF AND HER.
The cancer you CAN get is HIGHLY PREVENTABLE if you know what to do.
I’m not being mean. I just don’t want another persons life to be ruined by cancer that can be prevented. K
Knowledge is power. Learn.
Are you serious? This is exactly why the U.S. needs to direct more funding to sex education, so people can stop being this ignorant. I’m not going to answer this question. You need to see if you possibly have O.C.D. If you don’t know what that disease is either, google it.
Hey xumil ! You’re a total piece of crap.