{"id":13011,"date":"2017-06-18T19:46:37","date_gmt":"2017-06-18T19:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=13011"},"modified":"2023-05-05T09:22:22","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T09:22:22","slug":"how-long-should-i-take-isoniziad-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/13011","title":{"rendered":"How long should I take Isoniziad for?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks for getting in touch.<\/p>\n<p>Please ask your doctor how long you need to take isoniziad for. This will depend on whether you are taking it to treat TB or as prevention.<\/p>\n<p>Please also talk about the side effects in case there is an alternative treatment..<\/p>\n<p>Isoniziad is sometimes given to people with HIV as a prophylaxis for TB. A prophylaxis is a medication you take to prevent, rather than treat an illness or infection. So you are taking Isoniziad to prevent getting TB.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been on meds for 3 months. I went back to clinic a few weeks ago and they told me I needed to take isoniazid. Taking them makes me vomit. How long do I have to take them for? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-complications-and-coinfections","category-tb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13011","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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13011"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21750,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13011\/revisions\/21750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}