{"id":20925,"date":"2023-01-13T21:45:06","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T21:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=20925"},"modified":"2023-01-13T21:45:06","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T21:45:06","slug":"20925","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/20925","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, how are you doing?<\/p>\n<p>Darkening of skin tone, specifically gums and lips, is not known to be a side effect of TLD.<\/p>\n<p>There have been studies to show that HIV treatment can reduce how much vitamin D is absorbed by the body. Lower levels of vitamin D can then lead to discolouration of the skin.<\/p>\n<p>Have you mentioned this to your doctor? They can investigate possible reasons, including low levels of vitamin D. They will then be able to manage this. If vitamin D is the cause, a supplement can be used to help reverse this.<\/p>\n<p>Josh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, my name is Zie. I was switched to TLD (tenofovir\/lamuvidine\/dolutegravir) in 2020 and since then I&#8217;ve been noticing a gradual discolouration of gums and lips to a darker colour.  Is this a common side-effect of dolutegravir and us it reversible?&#x1f614;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-side-effects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20925","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=20925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20926,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20925\/revisions\/20926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}