Hi, how are you doing?<\/p>\n
Congratulations on having a baby.<\/p>\n
It is great that you were able to start treatment while you were pregnant. Even for a month or two before giving birth, this will greatly reduce the risk of transmission to baby.<\/p>\n
How is baby being fed e.g., breast or formula?<\/p>\n
How long has baby had this cough? It is not uncommon for a baby to have a cough. While it could be possible that HIV caused this it is still not very likely as you were able to start treatment before they were being born.<\/p>\n
Baby’s are very susceptible to getting ill. A baby having a cough is not uncommon but if it is lasting you should speak to a doctor about it. Has baby had any testing for HIV yet?<\/p>\n
Josh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I started taking my HIV medication on the 7th month of my pregnancy because that was when I tested positive. I had a vaginal birth and after birth my baby took nevirapine for a week and stopped for about a month because I couldn’t get the full dose for him and now he started taking it again. Now he has consistent cough that has refused to stop, my question is;
\n1. Is it possible for him to have the virus
\n2. Could the cough be as a result of the virus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-children","category-hiv-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21358","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=21358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21359,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21358\/revisions\/21359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}