Someone mentioned this awhile ago, and I'm not sure how that would help things. Radiation goes right through skin, muscle, bone, even teeth, so I'm not sure how having a little cotton in your mouth would change the exposure to the damaging effects of the radiation to the soft tissues of your mouth. If someone knows more about this please correct me if I am wrong. As to the cremes I will let someone more currently in treatment answer as things have changed a bit since I was nuked.

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