{"id":2211,"date":"2010-06-23T11:39:17","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T11:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=2211"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:16:35","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:16:35","slug":"would-using-a-steroid-inhaler-for-asthma-delay-or-inhibit-hiv-antibody-production-within-the-3-month-window-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/2211","title":{"rendered":"Would a steroid inhaler for asthma delay or inhibit HIV antibodies?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thank you for your question.<\/p>\n

Steroid inhalers have been known to decrease the amount of antibodies in the blood. However, this does not mean that there wouldn\u2019t be any antibodies produced in response to a HIV infection. A 4th\u00a0generation antibody test will still work within the 3-month period.<\/p>\n

An antigen test would pick up HIV infection whether or not antibodies were present.<\/p>\n

For more information on HIV testing please follow this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thank you for your question. Steroid inhalers have been known to decrease the amount of antibodies in the blood. However, this does not mean that there wouldn\u2019t be any antibodies produced in response to a HIV infection. A 4th\u00a0generation antibody …<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-hiv-testing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211","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=2211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24490,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211\/revisions\/24490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}