{"id":3586,"date":"2011-01-04T10:22:45","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T10:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=3586"},"modified":"2022-05-05T20:38:43","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T20:38:43","slug":"what-are-the-risks-of-taking-an-over-dose-of-arvs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/3586","title":{"rendered":"What are the risks of taking an over-dose of ARVs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for your question.<\/p>\n<p>Taking one or two extra doses of ARVs it not likely to be a problem. But is could increase side-effects from the drugs for a couple of days.<\/p>\n<p>To give you a more accurate answer please let me know how much of an overdose you are talking about. For example, is it just forgetting someone had already taken the drugs and taking them again once? Or are you talking about someone say taking a whole months supply at once?<\/p>\n<p>Taking a double dose by accident on rare occasions shouldn&#8217;t cause serious harm, however, a deliberate overdose of a lot of ARVs could increase the toxicities to such an extent that it damages the body&#8217;s vital organs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for your question. Taking one or two extra doses of ARVs it not likely to be a problem. But is could increase side-effects from the drugs for a couple of days. To give you a more accurate answer &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,16,38,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adherence","category-all-topics","category-drug-interactions","category-side-effects","category-support"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3586","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=3586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}