{"id":9047,"date":"2013-06-11T10:35:51","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T10:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=9047"},"modified":"2013-06-11T10:35:51","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T10:35:51","slug":"is-it-normal-for-cd4-count-to-drop-in-pregnancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/9047","title":{"rendered":"Is it normal for CD4 count to drop in pregnancy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for your email. It is very normal for a CD4 count to drop in pregnancy.\u00a0The CD4 drop in pregnancy is usually about 50 cells\/mm3, but it can vary a lot. This drop is only temporary. Your CD4 count will generally return to your pre-pregnancy level soon after the baby is born. Because your CD4 count is so high you shouldn&#8217;t worry about this- your immune system is still very strong.<\/p>\n<p>It is important though, to check that your viral load is undetectable. This is important both to make sure that treatment is working properly and because having an undetectable viral load is important to protect your baby from infection.<\/p>\n<p>Do you know if your doctor is checking your viral load, or if this is available where you are?<\/p>\n<p>Please follow this link for more information about<a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/pregnancy\/pregnancy-and-hiv\"> CD4 counts in pregnancy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m 36 weeks in my pregnancy and I&#8217;ve tested for HIV and results were positive. <\/p>\n<p>My CD4 count was 813 but now has dropped to 660 and yet I&#8217;m taking treatment is this normal?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load","category-pregnancy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9047","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}