{"id":22276,"date":"2023-08-31T14:44:26","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T14:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=22276"},"modified":"2025-04-03T08:09:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T08:09:22","slug":"why-has-my-baby-been-given-novatrim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/22276","title":{"rendered":"Why has my baby been given Novatrim?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, how are you doing?<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations on having a baby.<\/p>\n<p>Are you on treatment yourself? and how old is baby now?<\/p>\n<p>Have you been breastfeeding previously?<\/p>\n<p>Novatrim (co-trimoxazole) contains two antibiotics used to protect against general infections.<\/p>\n<p>The baby is often given Novatrim to prevent other infections that baby may be at risk of while breastfeeding. Is there a reason you are not breastfeeding for 3 weeks?<\/p>\n<p>Being given Novatrim would not suggest that baby is positive. This is not a medication used to treat HIV. Have you been told to go back to the clinic at any point?<\/p>\n<p>Josh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to the clinic I am HIV positive. They test my son, they didn&#8217;t give me the results but they gave me Novatrim suspension. I am not breast feeding for 3 weeks. Should I suspect that my son is positive or what is going on cause the nurse is very rude, I couldn&#8217;t ask her why we are using it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-children"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22276","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=22276"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26020,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22276\/revisions\/26020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}