{"id":3306,"date":"2010-11-11T12:58:58","date_gmt":"2010-11-11T12:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=3306"},"modified":"2012-09-26T10:45:06","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T10:45:06","slug":"i-am-thinking-of-having-a-baby-can-i-take-efavirenz-when-i-am-pregnant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/3306","title":{"rendered":"Can pregnant women take efavirenz?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NOTE: since this question was posted new guidelines have recommended that HIV positive woman can use efavirenz when trying to conceive and during pregnancy.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thank you for your question.<\/p>\n<p>If you are thinking of getting pregnant and you are on efavirenz you will need to speak to your doctor about the possibility of changing the efavirenz for something else.<\/p>\n<p>Research in pregnant monkeys showed lead to a recommendation not to use efavirenz during the first three months of pregnancy to reduce the risk cause of problems in the baby&#8217;s development. However, many women have become pregnant on efavirenz without this leading to any problems with the baby&#8217;s health.<\/p>\n<p>Efavirenz is not usually recommended if you are planning a pregnancy unless this is important for the mother and there are no other choices. For more information please follow this <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/pregnancy\/drugs-not-recommended\">link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck with starting your family!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOTE: since this question was posted new guidelines have recommended that HIV positive woman can use efavirenz when trying to conceive and during pregnancy.\u00a0 Thank you for your question. If you are thinking of getting pregnant and you are on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-pregnancy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3306","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=3306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}