Radiotherapy blisters

Make sure you tell the Rads nurses about it before you get your next treatment @Louise64 Xx. 

Can you ring your Breast Cancer/McGrath Nurse? If the skin is broken, be careful what you put on it.  Others will jump on soon with more advice xx

@JoeyLiz - being the weekend, can you help here?

all the best, take care xx

Hi @Louise64, 
I had a couple of spots where the skin was broken, and red areas. I put the gel of an aloe Vera leaf directly on. Smeared the gooey stuff everywhere, and stuffed some of the flesh in my bra and left it there all day. Worked very well. Try it on the weekend before you see you rads nurses again. You can find aloe Vera plants everywhere. Hope it gets better Xx

@FLClover thanks I’ll try that - I did nothing today but hasn’t settled. 

@Louise64 according to the onc, it takes 14 days for skin to renew. So it won’t completely heal till 2 weeks after you finish radiation. But the nurses should give you special creams and also possible bandage it if it gets really bad. But for the meantime, try the aloe Vera. Put the leaf (big one better) in the fridge beforehand, so it’s nice and cool and soothing when you apply it. I loved it. My skin has completely healed but I’m still using it. It makes it very soft. And it dries up blisters. Plus it’s free of you can find it in a random garden, or cheap to buy Xx

@arpie I’ll give the nurse a ring tomorrow morning 💗

@Louise64 you can buy Bepanthen antiseptic soothing  cream from the supermarket. I found it in the baby care section, used for nipple care. Cleared my blisters up very quickly.

Thank you

@Louise64  Slosite gel is good to take the sting out .  Maybe try the Moogoo udder cream instead of the QV.  It's brilliant

Luckily saw oncology nurse this afternoon- Dermaid 1% then StrataXRT an hour after. 

The nurse working with me suggested Sudocrem...available at woolies, about $3.00 a small tube. It's for nappy rash, but it really worked well. I only had to use it for about a week on my scar. I also use Moogoo as a general moisturiser still, after 5 months of finishing radiotherapy. Moogoo has been excellent. I also had to have surgery on my hand for an unrelated issue and the moogoo really helped with the scarring there too..Just check with your medical people before you try anything though..