{"id":23336,"date":"2024-07-27T19:37:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-27T19:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=23336"},"modified":"2024-07-27T19:40:40","modified_gmt":"2024-07-27T19:40:40","slug":"what-supplements-should-i-take-if-i-am-hiv-positive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/23336","title":{"rendered":"What supplements should I take if I am HIV positive?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there<\/p>\n<p>The is no need to take any supplements just because you are HIV positive.<\/p>\n<p>The only exception is if you doctor prescribes a supplement best a test shows that you have low levels.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes iron supplements are prescribed if you have low iron levels for example.<\/p>\n<p>So long as you are on HIV treatment, this will control HIV.<\/p>\n<p>There is no evidence that general supplements have any benefit. Usually it is just advertising to get your money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are the supplements to take when HIV positive?<\/p>\n<p>At the moment I am taking selenium tablets, oxygen capsules and sometimes and natural antiseptic Septoguard tablets. I also experience osteoarthritis of muscle spasms on the back between thighs and buttocks and now take prednisone and Voltaren for that but when in pains.<\/p>\n<p>What is your advice? I am on ART for more than a year now will be going for CD4 count in November this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-supplements-and-herbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23336","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23336"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23340,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23336\/revisions\/23340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}