{"id":3946,"date":"2011-04-21T13:27:24","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T13:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=3946"},"modified":"2011-04-21T13:27:24","modified_gmt":"2011-04-21T13:27:24","slug":"how-can-someone-with-a-low-cd4-prevent-opportunistic-infections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/3946","title":{"rendered":"How can someone with a low CD4 prevent opportunistic infections?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for your question.<\/p>\n<p>Isoniazid is a treatment for TB. It can be taken as prevention but this is not commonly done anymore due to resistance. In some countries Septrin \u00a0(co-trimoxazole) is given as a prophylaxis against pneumonia and other opportunistic infections in people with a CD4 count below 200. This does not interact with HIV treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from treatment, eating a healthy balanced diet, getting some exercise if possible, sleeping well, not smoking and drinking alcohol in moderation can all help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How can a person with low CD4 count and  who already had an opportunistic disease (pnuemonia) reduce risks of falling sick again?<\/p>\n<p>I heard about &#8216;Isoniazid preventive therapy&#8217; what is it exactly?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,29,39,40,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load","category-opportunistic-infections","category-starting-treatment","category-supplements-and-herbs","category-support"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3946","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=3946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}