{"id":4619,"date":"2011-09-01T16:03:15","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T16:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=4619"},"modified":"2012-11-01T14:19:49","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T14:19:49","slug":"can-i-take-vitamins-for-my-hiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/4619","title":{"rendered":"Can I take Vitamins for my HIV?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for your question.<\/p>\n<p>How are you doing in relations to your health at the moment? This is because a CD4 counts of 480 is good, there is nothing to worry about. However if you have any health conditions you can discuss this with your doctor.<\/p>\n<p>The new South African guidelines says treatment should be offered to anyone whose CD4 is under 350.\u00a0You can find information on when to start treatment in South Africa <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/10195\">at this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The following <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/faq\/vitamins-and-minerals-infonet-factsheet-801.\">factsheet<\/a> includes information about vitamins and minerals. Vitamins, minerals and other supplements have no direct activity against HIV and are not a replacement for antiretroviral therapy. Please talk to your doctor about any supplementary medications as they have the potential to interact with HIV treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Eating a healthy diet and keeping mentally and physically active, not smoking, sleeping well and only using recreational drugs including alcohol in moderation is all good advice.<\/p>\n<p>For information on where to get support in South Africa, follow this<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tac.org.za\/community\/\"> link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, I am HIV + with a CD4 count of 480. I am not on any medication as yet. What vitamins can I take to be healthy and what diet can I follow to be healthy ?  What is the right CD4 count and viral load for one to start taking ARV?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,9,16,49,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-access-to-treatment","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load","category-drug-interactions","category-south-africa","category-supplements-and-herbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4619","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}