{"id":14764,"date":"2018-10-26T14:25:42","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T14:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=14764"},"modified":"2018-10-26T14:25:42","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T14:25:42","slug":"does-a-womans-cd4-count-drop-when-shes-pregnant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/14764","title":{"rendered":"Does a woman&#8217;s CD4 count drop when she&#8217;s pregnant?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks for getting in touch.<\/p>\n<p>When a woman is pregnant it is possible for a CD4 count to drop as the following explains:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/pregnancy\/pregnancy-and-hiv\">https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/pregnancy\/pregnancy-and-hiv <\/a><\/p>\n<p>However the drop is usually a drop of around 50. To know for sure if there is an issue with your CD4 count, you&#8217;ll need to have a viral load test. If your viral load test is OK then the CD4 drop could be due to the pregnancy or a normal fluctuation. If there is an issue with your viral load then you may need to change treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Please consult a doctor about the drop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m 38 weeks pregnant. My CD4 count has gone from 870 to 450, is this due to the pregnancy? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load","category-pregnancy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14764","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=14764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}