{"id":1772,"date":"2010-05-07T14:15:14","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T14:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=1772"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:18:07","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:18:07","slug":"are-bleeding-gums-a-sign-of-hiv-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/1772","title":{"rendered":"Are sore gums a sign of HIV infection?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for your question.<\/p>\n<p>The only way you can know if you have HIV is to go for a test. Bleeding gums do not indicate whether you are in the early stages of HIV infection or not. Fourth generation (antigen+antibody) HIV tests are accurate 3-4 weeks after infection. All tests are free and confidential.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on testing and HIV transmission please follow this link to the i-Base <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/faq\/hiv-transmission-and-testing\">factsheet<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been having sore gums lately. They are not bleeding but are very inflamed. Is this a sign of early HIV infection after 10 weeks exposure?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-hiv-testing","category-hiv-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24320,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772\/revisions\/24320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}