{"id":10213,"date":"2014-09-19T13:56:57","date_gmt":"2014-09-19T13:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=10213"},"modified":"2015-05-07T11:26:44","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T11:26:44","slug":"can-i-take-muti-with-arvs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/10213","title":{"rendered":"Can I take muti with ARVs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We don&#8217;t have muti in the UK, but I think this is a general term for traditional medicines, especially in some countries in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>If you were in the UK it would not be recommended to take it as the same time as ARVs. This is because the ingredients are not known and are likely to vary a lot.<\/p>\n<p>Natural ingredients are sometimes safe but they can sometimes interact with HIV meds. Without information showing something is safe it is better to be cautious.<\/p>\n<p>I wondered why you want to take muti? If this is for a specific symptom it might be better to talk to your doctor in case other things could help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am on ARV and as it\u2019s been five months now, can I drink traditional muti and arv at same time?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,16,49,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-drug-interactions","category-south-africa","category-supplements-and-herbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10213","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}