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+ | ====== Doxycycline ====== | ||
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+ | A member of the tetracycline family of antibiotics, | ||
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+ | ===== Doxcycline is ineffective and makes patients worse ===== | ||
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+ | The rationale for using minocycline (or demeclocycline) as opposed to doxycycline is as follows: | ||
+ | * Doxycycline does not kill as wide a range of bacteria as minocycline. For example, doxycycline doesn' | ||
+ | * Doxycycline can lead to addiction unrelated to bacterial die-off. | ||
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+ | Short-term use of doxycycline (a month or so) will do no harm, but in the long term the species which are resistant to it will continue to proliferate and exacerbate the chronic disease. | ||
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+ | ===== Notes and comments ===== | ||
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+ | Does anybody have a reference for the addictive effect or other references about how doxycycline works? |