{"id":646,"date":"2008-11-06T15:43:36","date_gmt":"2008-11-06T14:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/?p=646"},"modified":"2021-11-22T12:17:31","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T12:17:31","slug":"what-does-a-cd4-count-of-0-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/646","title":{"rendered":"What does a CD4 count of 0 mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This means that the immune system has been severely damages and you have a very high risk from many infections that can be fatal.<\/p>\n<p>HIV medications need to be started immediately and can still be very successful at taking you out of this high risk situation.<\/p>\n<p>About 25% of people who start HIV treatment with a very low CD4 count (under 50 cells\/mm3) can get a flare of a previously undiagnosed infection. This is called Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome (or IRIS) and these symptoms are usually easy to treat.<\/p>\n<p>If viral load is &#8216;in the millions&#8217; this is very high and, when taken with a low CD4 count, also means you need to start treatment.<\/p>\n<p>There is detailed information about CD4 and viral load <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/ttfa\/section-2\/214-how-cd4-and-viral-load-are-related\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I very much hope that your question is hypothetical only.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does it mean if your CD4 count is 0 and viral load is in the millions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646","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=646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}