Babies and children, just like adults, are monitored by a combination of checking for physical signs of illness and laboratory tests, including CD4 and viral load.<\/p>\n
For babies and young children the CD4 percentage (CD4%) is more important and accurate than the CD4 count.<\/p>\n
This is because babies are usually borm with very high absolute CD4 counts (often 2-3000 cells\/mm3) which gradually drops to normal adult levels during childhood. Over this time, the CD4% is a more accurate guide for the level of damage caused by HIV.<\/p>\n
See this link<\/a> from the i-Base Introduction to Combination Therapy<\/a> for more info.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Babies and children, just like adults, are monitored by a combination of checking for physical signs of illness and laboratory tests, including CD4 and viral load. For babies and young children the CD4 percentage (CD4%) is more important and accurate …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-children","category-other-tests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568","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=568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}