Hi<\/p>\n
Thanks for your question – it must be a difficult time for you right now but things should get easier.<\/p>\n
Your doctor is giving you good advice about the time to start treatment. Most people do not start treatment until their CD4 count drops to around 350 cells\/mm3. Monitoring until then is fine.<\/p>\n
It is also good advice to lead a health life and eat well.<\/p>\n
You are right to be vary of herbal treatments. Selenium and vitamin B may help – but may not make that much difference if you are already eating a balanced diet.<\/p>\n
Immunadue is a multivitamin from South Africa. This is fine if you want to take it, but there is no evidence that using a multivitamin has any benefit for HIV. The claims on the website for this product are very wrong and misleading.<\/p>\n
Immunadue will not increase your CD4 count or reduce your viral load.<\/strong><\/p>\n When you come to need treatment, ARVs will be the best treatment.<\/p>\n You may be better to spend your money on good food rather than the multivitamin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hello<\/p>\n I am a 23 year old person who just recently found out to I am HIV-positive.<\/p>\n My CD4 count was 516 and my doctor told me that i do not need to start treatment and remommended a healthy diet and lifestyle . He also recommended the following pre-treatment medication: Immunadue Original Plus, Selenium EFC, and Vitamin B Complex; and I’m required to perform blood tests every six months.<\/p>\n I was also told that herbals sometimes become too harsh in fighting the virus and might agnry it to be severe.<\/p>\n I havent been sick except for the sinusitis and I am able to treat that.<\/p>\n I was asking whether the given prescription and advice is perfect and also for any health\/medical and moral advice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,28,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-newly-diagnosed","category-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381","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=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}