Senior Member (100+ posts) Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 188 Likes: 1 | Barb, Like others have mentioned, the Silver Sufadine cream helped heal the open wounds very quickly for me. The hospital also gave me a gel-like second skin product to keep the area moist. It WAS excruciatingly painful to get the stuff off before radiation exposures, but I kept the wound dressed from just after my last exposure of the day until just before my first of the next day (my treatment involved twice-a-day rad treatments).
The silver sulfadine helped, but when the wound is oozing/bleeding, you need something to keep it in place. The gel dressings were just the ticket. The product my hospital was using is called Vigilon. Hope this helps,
Good Health,
Chuck
SCC Stage IV right tonsil T3N3M0. Dx 08/03. Clinical Trial:8 weeks Taxol, Carboplatin then Hydrea, 5FU, IMRT x's 48, SND, Iressa x 2yrs. Now 20 years out and thriving. Dealing with a Prostate cancer diagnosis now. Add a Bladder cancer diagnosis to all the fun. It's always something "Adversity doesn't build character, it reveals it." |