{"id":650,"date":"2008-11-06T16:08:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-06T15:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/?p=650"},"modified":"2021-11-22T12:17:31","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T12:17:31","slug":"are-these-indications-to-start-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/650","title":{"rendered":"Is impetigo a reason to start treatment?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With such a low viral load and good CD4 count it would be unusual to start HAART without first trying to treat your impetigo separately.<\/p>\n<p>The symptoms that the guidelines refer to can include skin problems but more commonly are related to coinfections (hepatitis, TB etc), opportunistic infections, or cancers &#8211; all of which can benefit from HAART.<\/p>\n<p>More details about this are online in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bhiva.org\/cms1222226.asp\">BHIVA Guidelines<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ask your doctor to investigate the impetigo first, as it is not necessarily linked to your HIV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello again! I just wanted to say what a great site this is &#8211; I have found it so useful and informative.<\/p>\n<p>My question(s) are :-<\/p>\n<p>1. I read about the current starting point for HAART being a CD4 count of 350 or having symptoms &#8211; but I am not clear on what those symptoms would be in order to indicate treatment at higher CD4 counts.<\/p>\n<p>2. I probably contracted HIV about 2 years ago &#8211; with a negative test at 18 months and a positive test at 6 months ago. My CD4 is 480 and a constant viral load of 50 copies (which I am told is very low) but I do get impetigo type breakouts on my face from time to time and these heal after about 2 weeks. Could this be an indication to start early treatment &#8211; or are my bloods ok to continue without HAART?<\/p>\n<p>I read that skin problems are common in HIV, but not clear about what constitutes enough of a problem to start treatment .<\/p>\n<p>Thank you<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,29,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-opportunistic-infections","category-starting-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650","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=650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}