{"id":10079,"date":"2014-09-05T14:22:21","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T14:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=10079"},"modified":"2014-09-05T14:22:21","modified_gmt":"2014-09-05T14:22:21","slug":"what-causes-viral-load-blips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/10079","title":{"rendered":"What causes viral load blips?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for your enquiry. I&#8217;m sorry to hear about your diagnosis. It is good that you are wanting to learn about HIV though.<\/p>\n<p>One of the reasons for blips is that viral load testing is also not very accurate at low levels. They can be caused by other infections like the flu, or a recent vaccination as well. Usually if someone has a result that looks like a blip they have a test to confirm that it was. Single blips above 50 are common and do not mean that someone has to change treatment.\u00a0Test results that look like a blip may also be due to lab error.<\/p>\n<p>Blips are relatively common and the US guidelines don&#8217;t recognize a blip unless its above 200.<\/p>\n<p>You can find more <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/changing\/viral-load-blips%20\">information about viral load blips<\/a>\u00a0in our guide.<\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/if-you-have-just-found-out-you-are-hiv-positive\/\">information about being newly diagnosed<\/a> here.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was diagnosed 3 months ago. I&#8217;ve read a lot of articles, research and even several books about the disease, but a lot of things still remain unclear to me.<br \/>\nWhen someone is on successful ARV treatment, what is the reason for viral load blips, are they caused by colds or other infections and diseases?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load","category-resistance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}