{"id":6333,"date":"2012-03-15T12:59:11","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T12:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=6333"},"modified":"2012-11-01T14:19:48","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T14:19:48","slug":"can-multi-vitamins-helps-to-boost-my-immune-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/6333","title":{"rendered":"Can multi vitamins help to boost my immune system?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In general, it is safe to take vitamins with your HIV medication. \u00a0However, unless you have a vitamin deficiency, there is no reason to take vitamins. They will not improve your CD4 count or help fight HIV.<\/p>\n<p>Herbal supplement and products can have interactions with your HIV drugs. Please ask your pharmacy or HIV doctor first before you take them. Again though, these will not help with your HIV.<\/p>\n<p>What is your CD4 count and your viral load?\u00a0 Which drugs have you used before?<\/p>\n<p>An alternative HIV drug might be a drug called darunavir, which is a protease inhibitor.\u00a0 I\u2019m not quite sure whether it is available in South Africa, perhaps you can ask your doctor when the new drug is going to be available.<\/p>\n<p>Multi vitamins, supplements and herbal remedies have no direct activity against HIV.\u00a0 Only HIV medication can help to improve your immune system.\u00a0 Please look at the <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/faq\/vitamins-and-minerals-infonet-factsheet-801.\">link on vitamins and minerals<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which holistic treatments or herbal medicine is safe to take with Truvada and Aluvia. I am at stage 4.  I have changed combinations throughout the years it works for a while then i get sick and become resistant to the drugs, so am starting to look for alternatives.<\/p>\n<p>Are there a new drugs that i can change to after this regime?  I just need something that will slow down the virus drastically for a longer period.<\/p>\n<p>Is there any multivitamin that will boost my immune system?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10,49,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-changing-treatment","category-south-africa","category-supplements-and-herbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6333","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}