{"id":2542,"date":"2010-08-04T15:32:14","date_gmt":"2010-08-04T15:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=2542"},"modified":"2010-08-04T15:32:14","modified_gmt":"2010-08-04T15:32:14","slug":"when-should-i-take-cotrimoxazole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/2542","title":{"rendered":"When should I take cotrimoxazole?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for your question.<\/p>\n<p>Cotrimoxazole does not interact with any of the HIV treatments. Therefore it does not matter whether you take it at night-time or in the morning. It also has no specifications regarding whether to take it on an empty or full stomach.<\/p>\n<p>It is usually recommended to take the efavirenz on an empty stomach just before bed-time as this limits the side effects. It could be that your doctor recommended taking this at the same time to make it easier to remember.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>I have recently started HIV treatment, efavirenz and Truvada with co-trimoxazole to help prevent infection. I was told to take all 3 at bed-time on an empty stomach, which I have been doing, but I have heard from another expert via a friend that I should take the co-trimoxazole in the day and the HIV meds at night, can someone clarify this for me please?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,29,39,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-opportunistic-infections","category-starting-treatment","category-supplements-and-herbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2542","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=2542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}