White tea sweetened with fruit juice was one of the first things I found I really enoyed after cancer treatment and it soothed my mouth irritation and cut through the still-present phlegm. Apparently one of the ROs working at the hosp. where I got radiated had worked someplace in the South before and the nurses there recommended decaf sweet tea as a drink to sooth mouth irritation for oral cancer radiation patients. I'm sure they recommended brusing teeth well after that.

I still drink green and white tea. I couldn't for a while when my xerostomia was at its worst because they felt like they dried out my mouth too much (which tea does do) but now that I have some saliva again, I try to have green or white tea at least once a day.

Nelie