Bleeding on neck

Nancy24
Nancy24 Member Posts: 72 Member
in Head and Neck Cancer #1

Does anyone have any advice on how to deal with bleeding on the neck?  My husband finished his proton therapy yesterday and he has an area of his neck that keeps bleeding. It forms a scab but we have been putting neosporin and a non-adherent bandage on it at night so he doesn't get blood on the pillow. During the night the bandage ends up rubbling away the scab. We are in a vicious circle and not sure what to do. The wound is exposed to air all day. It was the radiation onc's nurse who gave us the pad and tape. Does anyone have a better suggestion?

Nancy

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  • Noellesmom
    Noellesmom Member Posts: 1,859 Member
    #2
    Aquaphor?

    Just a suggestion. Ask the nurse first, of course.

  • Nancy24
    Nancy24 Member Posts: 72 Member
    #3
    Aquaphor

    We were using aquaphor without a bandage and found out the hard way that it stains. Are you suggesting to put aquaphor  the wound under the bandage?  My husband had also considered doing that. 

  • Nancy24
    Nancy24 Member Posts: 72 Member
    #4
    Liquid bandage?

    I probably need to call nurse tomorrow to ask about spraying on liquid bandage. Anyone tried that?

  • Noellesmom
    Noellesmom Member Posts: 1,859 Member
    #5
    Nancy24 said:

    Aquaphor

    We were using aquaphor without a bandage and found out the hard way that it stains. Are you suggesting to put aquaphor  the wound under the bandage?  My husband had also considered doing that. 

    Not really

    Aquaphor alone. But check with the nurse.

    Linens are replaceable.

  • swopoe
    swopoe Member Posts: 492
    #6
    Aquaphor does stain but it

    Aquaphor does stain but it works so well. My husband used to sleep with a washcloth on his pillow. 

  • Sandraw
    Sandraw Member Posts: 40
    edited September 2016 #7
    Hi

    I had a sore on both sides of my neck from rads. At night they stuck to my pillow and would pull the scabs off. I globbed aquaphor on and wrapped my pillow with a towel, the next night I just flipped the towel over. Eventually rad oncologist Rxd silvadene cream, healed faster then. See if you can get silvadene.  Good luck, 

     

  • Nancy24
    Nancy24 Member Posts: 72 Member
    #8
    Update

    I will share your aquaphor experiences with my husband. In the meantime, he stopped putting anything on the raw skin (looked like he had a layer of skin burned off) and slept with a towel wrapped around the pillow. His final proton treatment was Aug 30. Right now it is fully scabbed over...looks somewhat scary....but at least the bleeding has stopped. I'm surprised that his doctors and nurses didn't suggest silvadene. Now that the scab has formed and it appears to be healing, perhaps he doesn't need anything else. Does aquaphor help at this point?  He is putting Miaderm everywhere else on his neck.

    We are home now so I'm less concerned with staining linens (we were renting a house while he received treatment at Scripps and I was trying to be extra careful with linens and pillows that weren't ours).

    Nancy

  • CivilMatt
    CivilMatt Member Posts: 4,724 Member
    edited September 2016 #9
    put out the fire

    Nancy,

    I had pretty good neck burn and went through 2-50mg & 1-200mg containers of the Silver Sulfadiazine Cream, best burn cream ever.  It took what was my worst pain of treatment completely away.  It is messy; I used a tee shirt on my pillows.

    It was great for me, but it is not for everyone, we have had a few H&N members with very negative reactions.

    Matt

  • Barbaraek
    Barbaraek Member Posts: 626
    #10
    I concur with Matt

    the Silvadene took care of the nasty weepy burns on my husband's neck.

    Barbars

  • Hondo
    Hondo Member Posts: 6,636 Member
    edited September 2016 #11
    Alo

     

    I prefer to use aloe vera cream for radiation burns

     

    Tim

     

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