Hi, how are you doing?<\/p>\n
Congratulations on having a baby. It is great that you have been undetectable and baby was started on nevirapine.<\/p>\n
Nevirapine is given as a post-exposure treatment from being in mums tummy. It is not used to prevent transmission from breastmilk.<\/p>\n
In most cases it is recommended for baby to be on nevirapine for 4-6 weeks regardless of how they are fed, after birth. As you had been undetectable 4 weeks is a suitable amount of time for baby to be on treatment.<\/p>\n
Has your doctor told you how long to give nevirapine for?<\/p>\n
It is safe to go back to breastfeeding (if this is only switched once). More often baby is given a medication called co-trimoxazole while being breastfed. This is to prevent other infections that mum might be at risk of and can pass on via breastmilk.<\/p>\n
Josh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hi, I’m 5 weeks postpartum, with an undetectable viral load and a negative baby. At birth I was given nevirapine to give to the baby as I was breastfeeding. I breastfed for 3 weeks and stopped due to low production of milk. I continued giving the baby nevirapine until a week ago when I fell sick and couldn’t take proper care of the baby(I forgot most of the things). I’ve fully recovered, can I continue to give the baby nevirapine and by stopping it did I not put my baby at risk?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11,23,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-children","category-hiv-transmission","category-peppepse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22715","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=22715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22716,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22715\/revisions\/22716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}