{"id":18814,"date":"2021-12-15T17:56:34","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T17:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=18814"},"modified":"2021-12-15T17:56:34","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T17:56:34","slug":"will-a-cold-affect-my-blood-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/18814","title":{"rendered":"Will a cold affect my blood test?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HI, how are you?<\/p>\n<p>Sorry to hear you have been unwell, hopefully you are feeling better now.<\/p>\n<p>An infection like a cold will not likely have an impact on your Iron or Vitamin D levels. If the result is outside of a normal range, it is likely the blood test would be repeated.<\/p>\n<p>As for how a cold can impact HIV markers (Viral Load and CD4), a previous question has been asked for which you can find <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/11965\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A blood test, when carried out safely, will not impact your immune system. It will not mean you take longer to become healthy again.<\/p>\n<p>If you have another question please get in touch,<\/p>\n<p>Josh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am sick at the moment, most likely with a viral infection, like a cold (I am negative for COVID). I booked a blood test a month ago, before I was sick to check if my Iron and vitamin D levels are okay. Will being sick affect my blood test? And will getting a blood test harm my immune system and make it so it takes longer for me to get better?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18814","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}