Hi<\/p>\n
Thanks for your question.<\/p>\n
Before talking about options for treatment I\u2019d be interested in what might be the cause for the enlarged parotid glands?<\/p>\n
When looking for research articles, most cases (irrespective of HIV) refer to very different causes, for example, bacterial infections or to cancers or to HIV\/treatment. This is a subject that I know little about, but the cause is nearly always important in deciding the course of treatment.<\/p>\n
Although I couldn\u2019t find medical journal articles about HIV and parotitis, I do remember discussions on a community discussion forum called pozhealth@yahoogroups.com. This was in the context of lipodystrophy, but also was several years ago.<\/p>\n
One option would be to join this forum and then search for those discussions. This might also be a good place to post your question about treatment as Nelson Vergel (who wrote one of the articles I link to below), personally has this experience. You could also try contacting the doctor referred to in the article. Although this was written more than ten years ago, I think they are still in practice).<\/p>\n
Perhaps asking both your doctors why they have a preference for one treatment over the other.\u00a0Sometimes doctors just have more experience than one than another, or they might say either is likely to be good.<\/p>\n
Links<\/b>\u00a0(please note the date for each as some are quite old)<\/i>.<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.thebody.com\/Forums\/AIDS\/Nutrition\/Q244096.html<\/a><\/p>\n http:\/\/survivinghiv.blogspot.co.uk\/2006\/04\/chipmunk-look-that-noone-talks-about.html<\/a><\/p>\n https:\/\/health.usnews.com\/doctors\/patricia-gordon-585907<\/a><\/p>\n https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC4368956<\/a><\/p>\n http:\/\/www.japi.org\/july_2009\/article_06.pdf<\/a> \u00a0(PDF)<\/p>\n