"Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts) Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 794 | Hi, My mom had the Erbitux rash--her skin was painful to touch, it looked like onion skin, and oozed--she stuck to her sheets, pj's, etc. Her Chemo doc gave her a precription for minicyclene (Sorry, can't recall the spelling) and we used Aquaphor all the time. Once we had the script/aquaphor combo things calmed down within days. She does have a slight scar where the skin peeled...I call it her medal of honor!
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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