{"id":13987,"date":"2017-12-24T11:39:58","date_gmt":"2017-12-24T11:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=13987"},"modified":"2017-12-24T11:39:58","modified_gmt":"2017-12-24T11:39:58","slug":"are-fits-a-late-stage-hiv-symptom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/13987","title":{"rendered":"Are &#8220;fits&#8221; a late-stage HIV symptom?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fit&#8221; has several meanings in a medical context.<\/p>\n<p>The main one is having a\u00a0<span class=\"hvr\">seizure<\/span> or <span class=\"hvr\">convulsion,<\/span> <span class=\"hvr\">for example<\/span> <span class=\"hvr\">one<\/span> <span class=\"hvr\">caused<\/span> by <span class=\"hvr\">epilepsy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This symptoms can sometimes be related to a late stage infection, if the brain is affected. This risk is higher if the CD4 count is very low, ie less than 200, 100, and then 50.<\/p>\n<p>Having an emotional fit &#8211; ie a bad temper &#8211; is sometimes related to HIV or HIV meds as a side effect (with efavirenz).<\/p>\n<p>Without more information it is difficult to comment.<\/p>\n<p>These symptoms do not imply HIV though unless someone has tested HIV positive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is fitting a late stage in the disease process?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-opportunistic-infections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13987","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=13987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}