{"id":17385,"date":"2021-07-24T23:09:11","date_gmt":"2021-07-24T23:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=17385"},"modified":"2021-07-29T12:47:05","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T12:47:05","slug":"what-does-a-cd4-count-of-106-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/17385","title":{"rendered":"What does a CD4 count of 106 mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there,<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for your question and for letting us answer online.<\/p>\n<p>The CD4 count is a blood test that is used to monitor HIV infection.<\/p>\n<p>Without HIV treatment (ART), the CD4 count goes down as HIV becomes more serious.\u00a0With HIV treatment it should go up again to safer levels.<\/p>\n<p>A CD4 count above 500 is considered &#8220;normal&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>A CD4 count below 350 shows HIV has damaged your immune system.<\/p>\n<p>If the count is less than 200 your risk of serious infections becomes much higher.<\/p>\n<p>Interpreting the results depends on whether or not you are taking ART.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If you have just found out you are HIV positive, this means it is important to start ART.<\/li>\n<li>If you are already taking ART, then your CD4 count should be going up.<\/li>\n<li>If it is going down on ART, it shows you might need to change treatment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The ART will let your CD4 count increase to safer levels.<\/p>\n<p>Please let me know if you have more questions.<\/p>\n<p>Much more detailed information is at these links.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is a normal CD4 count?<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/20\">https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/20<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>CD4 count as a marker of your immune system<\/strong><br \/>\nhttps:\/\/i-base.info\/ttfa\/section-1\/7-cd4-count-as-a-surrogate-marker\/<\/p>\n<p><strong>Interpreting CD4 results: CD4 count and CD4 percentage<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/ttfa\/section-1\/9-interpreting-cd4-results-cd4-count-and-cd4-percentage\/\">https:\/\/i-base.info\/ttfa\/section-1\/9-interpreting-cd4-results-cd4-count-and-cd4-percentage\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the meaning of 106 cells\/uL for CD4 count. Is it too low?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,10,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load","category-changing-treatment","category-starting-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17385","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=17385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}