Hi<\/p>\n
Thanks for asking a question about your Mom.<\/p>\n
If your Mom is now in HIV treatment (also called ART) then her CD4 count should be fine to increase again.<\/p>\n
CD4 increases are usually slow and steady, but this usually gets to above 200 and often much higher.<\/p>\n
This will dramatically reduce the risk of your Mom having HIV related problems.<\/p>\n
Although the immune sytem does loose some functions as we get older, this only become serious at higher ages – perhaps over 70 or 80.<\/p>\n
In terms of responses to ART, it is a good reason for everyone to start treatment earlier, especially if they are older than 50. But people older than 50 still get good responses to ART.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
My Mom has been diagnosed with HIV. She has a low CD4 count (less than 200).<\/p>\n
She is currently taking the ART pills and following her treatment.<\/p>\n
I am worried because I read somewhere else that older people stop producing CD4 cells after 50, even if they are on ART. She is 47 so it is close.<\/p>\n
Is this true? Should I be worried that my Mom will not be able to rise her CD4 count?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load","category-support"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11522","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=11522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}