Radiation burns

Back when I had radiation if
Back when I had radiation if the burn was bad enough they would give me Radia Care Gel sheets which were quite soothing. They stay in the fridge and when applied they are cool which feels great. They are expensive, they are sold on Amazon here is a link.

http://www.amazon.com/Carrington-CA101052-Radiacare-Inch-Sheets/dp/B001SINCG2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qi[phone number redacted]63&sr=8-1 Hope this helps.

Another thing that you can do while having radiation is to lightly dust the radiated area with corn starch (yes the stuff in your kitchen.) I was instructed to made a corn starch dust ball of sorts using cheese cloth or a stocking (sock) tying off the end. This really worked well as it made it easy to apply lightly. The cornstarch helps to keep the radiated area from chafing.

I also used sween creme and aloe both of which worked well.

HootieGirl said:

I know exactly what you're
I know exactly what you're going through. I personally had almost all of the skin on my chest wall fall off because of 2nd degree burns. I took a one week break and then resumed. It does heal pretty fast though. There is something called Mepolex that you might look into getting. It is incredible and will allow you to move without being in pain. Also after your finished with treatments, you could try Silvedene. They use it on burn victims and after a couple uses, my skin was almost healed back.

Anyway, hope everything is going great!
Kat

SILVEDENE
Hi Kat,

I used silvedene when I had second degree burns on my arm from a pressure cooker accident several years ago, it was very helpful. I did not use it during rads because at that time no one mentioned it to me and I had no idea it existed, my pressure cooker accident did not happen till several years later. Great Suggestion!

♥ RE