needsome said:
Dear Health Nurse,
I'm sorry I was not clear before. I did not mean to ask if STI can be passed "from genital to hand or hand to genital". I meant to ask if STI can be passed from genital to hand to genital.
If a hand touches an infected genital (the wet area), can that hand infect the uninfected person?
I was diagnosed with NGU last fall, but the test results the following week showed negative for everything else. I am trying to understand how I contracted NGU.
Thx Again,
Needsome
Hi needsome
It is possible that if a hand touches infected fluid from the vagina or tip of the penis and then that hand went into the vagina or touched the tip of another person that an infection could spread. We have seen this happen with infections like chlamydia. This is more likely to occur when the transfer of fluid is immediate e.g. fingers in vagina and then immediately touches your penis.
In the situation you describe I don’t believe there is a risk because even if the provider saw a customer before it is unlikely that they would not have washed their hands between patrons. But even if they didn’t wash their hands any fluids present would likely have dried up, and in that case transmission would be negligible.
NGU stands for Nongonococcal urethritis, which means you have urethritis (hurts when you pee, discharge, and itch inside your pee tube). It also means they do not know what is causing this to happen, except they know it is not gonorrhea. Some of the causes of this are Chlamydia, mycoplasma’s, ureaplasma’s, adenoviruses, trichomonas, herpes simplex virus etc. As we only test for gonorrhea and chlamydia from the penis it is common for these tests to be negative.
There is evidence that NGU can be transmitted through oral sex.
Here is a link for more information on NGU;
http://www.stdresource.com/disease/index.php?page=edit&id=2&action=viewfull
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