{"id":2571,"date":"2010-08-04T15:55:34","date_gmt":"2010-08-04T15:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=2571"},"modified":"2010-08-04T15:55:34","modified_gmt":"2010-08-04T15:55:34","slug":"can-i-take-supplements-when-im-hiv-positive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/2571","title":{"rendered":"Can I take supplements when I\u2019m HIV positive?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for your question.<\/p>\n<p>It is fine for HIV positive people to take vitamins and supplements. However, you should always check with your doctor first as there are some supplements such as St John\u2019s Wart which interact with certain HIV medications.<\/p>\n<p>For a comprehensive guide to which vitamins and supplements are good for people with HIV please follow this <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/faq\/vitamins-and-minerals-infonet-factsheet-801\">link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I have been taking my HIV regimen the only time I took a vitamin tablet was during my latent TB diagnosis in 2008 (Vitamin B12). I hope vitamin and supplements are not the same?<\/p>\n<p>This supplement came out in Thailand with good results and people were recommending it so much. The supplement was made from rice and called Vital Star.<\/p>\n<p>Why I\u2019m asking is because I don\u2019t want to harm my body with supplements and I don\u2019t know if it is possible for a HIV positive person to take supplements or not.<\/p>\n<p>Please I need your advice but I bought it already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2571","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\/2571","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=2571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}