 "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts)
Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 794 | Katie,
My mom was given a prescription of tussionex for the ropey saliva, and her MO gave her a bottle of sodium chloride for the dry mouth. You can make the solution yourself, it is posted on here with the recipe...we were never able to make it just right.
Mom had a trach put in during surgery, it was there for a month-towards the end it felt raw inside to her.
Good luck.
Donna
CG to Mom, dx 4/25/07 with tongue cancer,T3N0,tx began 7/6/07, 31 tx's of IMRT, 8 cycles of Erbitux. Brachytherapy, surgery, left neck dissection and temp trach placed all on 9/17/07, trach removed 10/17/07. ORN of jaw, late effect of radiation symptoms. **lost my beautiful mother on 5/5/11.
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