{"id":22757,"date":"2024-01-29T19:59:12","date_gmt":"2024-01-29T19:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=22757"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:20:22","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:20:22","slug":"do-i-need-to-increase-the-dose-of-nvp-when-baby-gains-weight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/22757","title":{"rendered":"Do I need to increase the dose of NVP when baby gains weight?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, how are you doing?<\/p>\n<p>No you do not need to alter the dose. The dose of nevirapine is given based on the age of the person and not the weight.<\/p>\n<p>How long have you been told to continue giving baby nevirapine for? As you are undetectable the risk of transmission is minimal and in these cases it is often recommended for baby to only be on nevirapine for 6 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Nevirapine is used to prevent infection from exposure in the tummy. Even if you are still breastfeeding there hasn&#8217;t been a benefit seen to continue with treatment after 6 weeks in low risk cases.<\/p>\n<p>This is <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/factsheets\/infant-meds-when-the-mother-is-living-with-hiv\">explained further here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Josh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My baby is 1 month and I&#8217;m currently breastfeeding exclusively and my VL is undetectable. I was given nevirapine for 6 weeks and my dose was 1.5ml at the hospital. Now I know my baby has gained weight and I&#8217;m still giving the same dose. Will my child not be infected? Because I wasn&#8217;t told to change it of they gain weight and our next appointment is in 2 weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,9,11,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adherence","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load","category-children","category-hiv-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22757","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=22757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22758,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22757\/revisions\/22758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}