Re: doxycycline for DILS parotid gland enlargement (chipmunk cheeks)

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Don there are several reasons for parotid glands enlargement,the 2 most common with HIV are PLC (a tumor) and HIV Diffuse infiltrative CD8Lymphocytosis

syndrome, neither responds to antibiotics or anti inflammatory like cortisone.Both have been use before with no results, do a search with google and you get quite few articles on HIV/Parotid and what doctors have been trying for the past 15 years.Some people seems to have an improvement with antiviral therapy,that was not my case, the only effective treatments to date are either surgery or radiations.Mark BFrom: Don Kennedy <singerred@...> Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2008 4:53:31 PMSubject: doxycycline for DILS parotid gland enlargement (chipmunk cheeks) Has anyone been treated for chipmunk cheeks using

doxycycline?  Here's the link to an article I read about it's use for this HIV related problem.   http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN & cpsidt=2363549 Don Kennedy

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"Has anyone been treated for chipmunk cheeks using doxycycline? Here's the link to an article I read about it's use for this HIV related problem."I don't think it would hurt to try, but I doubt that the problem is infectious, in most people.JB

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> " Has anyone been treated for chipmunk cheeks using doxycycline? Here's

> the link to an article I read about it's use for this HIV related

> problem. "

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> I don't think it would hurt to try, but I doubt that the problem is

> infectious, in most people.

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> JB

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JB:

I think in this case, Doxycycline is being used as an irritant (as in

pleurodesis) rather than as an anti-infective. DILS is an

infiltration of CD8 cells, forming parotid cysts. The Doxy is

probably injected and used to close the cysts and keep them closed.

Nienow