Is washing clothes with AIDS contagious?


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AIDS
is due to infection with human immunodeficiency virus and lead to immune deficiency, thus causing systemic diseases, AIDS virus mainly exists in the source of infection in the blood, semen, vaginal secretions, cerebrospinal fluid, pleural effusion, amniotic fluid, milk and other body fluids, the main transmission routes are sexual transmission, blood and blood products transmission, mother-to-child transmission. Washing clothes with AIDS patients is not within the scope of transmission routes, the virus will not be transmitted through clothing to the outside world, even if the clothes contain sweat from patients, the virus content is extremely small, and HIV resistance to external chemicals is very poor, washing clothes in the process of adding detergent, can destroy the virus lipid envelope, so that the virus loses its infectivity, kill it, so washing clothes with AIDS patients generally will not be infected. It is
recommended that patients go to the hospital as soon as possible for regular treatment, reduce the impact of HIV on the human body, pay attention to sexual hygiene, and develop good living habits.