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Re: HPV treatment

From: anonymous@obgyn.net
Mon, 15 May 2000 14:13:26 -0500 (CDT)

At Mon, 15 May 2000, Chris wrote: >
>My doctor recently found mild dysplasia and I had a colposcopy which
>came back normal. However, the doctor could not rule out the
>possibility of HPV and prescribed me the medicine Cleocin for the HPV. I
>thought that HPV is a virus. Will this medicine really help or is it
>just a waste of my time and money to use it?

Cleocin is an antibiotic, and it will have no effect whatsoever on HPV. It is useful for treating bacterial overgrowth or bacterial inflammation of the cervix which can obscure your pap smear, but that is all. 

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William D. McIntosh, MD, FACOG
Clarksville, TN


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