{"id":26763,"date":"2026-09-20T19:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T19:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=26763"},"modified":"2026-09-21T08:07:35","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T08:07:35","slug":"is-my-baby-at-risk-from-small-amounts-of-milk-if-i-mised-meds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/26763","title":{"rendered":"Is my baby at risk from small amounts of milk if I missed HIV meds?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>Hi there<\/p>\n<p>Please do not worry\u00a0about this.<\/p>\n<p>From what you have said, such small amounts of milk will not \u00a0have harmed your baby because your viral load is undetectable.<\/p>\n<p>Missing your meds should not have affected your viral load, if you are lucky,<\/p>\n<p>I am worried about your health though and that you sometimes miss your meds.<\/p>\n<p>You need to keep well and healthy both for yourself and for your baby.<\/p>\n<p>Your baby needs you to stay healthy too :)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, I live in South Africa and have a 33 month old that tested negative at 18 months so he started a new habit of suckling on my breast and I never thought milk was coming out.<\/p>\n<p>Today I got the shock of my life when I saw droplets of milk on my child it\u2019s not much but there is milk coming out I don\u2019t even know when this started I am so worried because I would sometimes miss meds for days because I didn\u2019t think there\u2019s anything coming out.<\/p>\n<p>What are the chances of him being infected i am so worried I took bloods 2 weeks back and my next clinic date is in December I am so scared my viral load has always been undectable I am from South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,23,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adherence","category-all-topics","category-hiv-transmission","category-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26763","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=26763"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26769,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26763\/revisions\/26769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}