Mouth sores with Chemo

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SNOYL
SNOYL Member Posts: 5
edited March 2014 in Breast Cancer #1
A friend of mine who had breast cancer and a double mastectomy a few years ago, has given these tips for me to pass on to my daughter in law. She said that with Chemo comes terrible mouth sores and to combat those, she should take Kyolic Kyo-green. She and a few others have sworn that this is the best stuff to use to get rid of the mouth sores immediately. She also suggested for her to begin taking and continue throughout the Chemo Veggie Complete & Fruit Complete.
Just wanted to pass this along if it might help someone.

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  • MAJW
    MAJW Member Posts: 2,510 Member
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    MOUTH SORES.........
    I was given a prescription NYSTATIN, to use 4x a day if needed.....I never had any mouth sores at all and not everyone gets them.....everyone is different. I was also advised to rinse my mouth 4x daily with baking soda and warm salt water

    I would strongly suggest that your daughter in law NOT TAKE ANYTHING without checking with her medical oncologist first! HERBS can interfer with the chemo drugs, according to my medical oncologist.....I took NOTHING that wasn't prescribed by my oncologist....they do know best....
    I wish all of you the best
  • brenda247
    brenda247 Member Posts: 124
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    oh wow mouth sores??
    i know how she feels every treatment i got them not a one missed. i couldnt eat or swallow it was horrible so i know how she must feel.. i told my dr they gave me DUKE mouthwash it is only through prescription but boy it was GREAT!!!
    you can even swallow it to help the sore throat too!!

    good luck to her and hope shes better soon!!
    PRAYERS & HUGGGSSS!!!

    brenda
  • BunnyJane
    BunnyJane Member Posts: 213
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    brenda247 said:

    oh wow mouth sores??
    i know how she feels every treatment i got them not a one missed. i couldnt eat or swallow it was horrible so i know how she must feel.. i told my dr they gave me DUKE mouthwash it is only through prescription but boy it was GREAT!!!
    you can even swallow it to help the sore throat too!!

    good luck to her and hope shes better soon!!
    PRAYERS & HUGGGSSS!!!

    brenda

    Mouth sores
    I had sores with each treatment and gargled with baking soda and water mixture (1 tsp soda in 1 cup of water) -- worked great!
  • mimivac
    mimivac Member Posts: 2,143 Member
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    Mouth sores
    Yes, I got them, too. I had two prescriptions from my doctor to try to prevent and treat them. They are caused by the adriymcin. It sometimes helps to suck on some ice while the nurse is administering this drug. That makes the blood vessels in the mouth constrict and less likely to take in the adrimycin that causes all the havoc. After a while though, the ice started making me nauseated and I preferred to get the mouth sores. Totally psychological, but I couldn't stand it.

    Also, as someone else pointed out, your DIL should check with her oncologist about any herbs or supplements she plans on taking while on chemo. Even things like anti-oxidents can interfere with the proper functioning of the drugs. Good luck. You're a great MIL.

    Mimi
  • darlakilgore
    darlakilgore Member Posts: 3
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    mouth and tongue sores

    I first started chemo in Dec. 2011, 3 months of chemo, then surgery removing all female organs, appendix, lymph nodes and omentum from  stomach, I have ovarian cancer, the tumors are in the stomach, had no problem with mouth sores with that chemo, taxil and carboplatin 8 months total of chemo, a month after I went off chemo the tumors came back. Was put on a clinical trial for two monts using doxil and still had no problems.Except when I went off doxil, a cat scan showed the tumors had gotten bigger and another one had showed up. Then I was put on gemcitabine, it caused the red blood cells to go too low, so had several blood transfusions, only hAd two treatments of that. I am now back on Taxil and Avastin, had one infusions and now I have the sore tongue, and sore throat. Have been using the baking soda mouth wash, helps a little, but still a very sore tongue.

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