Life After Radiotherapy for Head Neck Cancer is not easy.
Oral cavity and oropharynx: Oral mucositis, Glossitis, Ulcers make life difficult few things help.
Life After Radiotherapy for Head Neck Cancer: 5 Things to improve quality of life
- Appearance
- Diet
- Supplements
- Hygiene
- Sleep ,exercise,meditation
- Wigs for women help a lot to tide over. Good quality wigs help to keep looking good without feeling the stress of changing appearance. Cancer treatment is difficult. There’s no easy way to deal with it except be prepared with the best help you have. As a doctor, I always encourage my patients to concentrate on self-care and appearance. That always helps in boosting up the morale and has a wonderful effect on healing.
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Because women need to feel good about themselves. That’s the first step in getting better. The best part you can change your hairstyle every month and not worry about using harsh chemicals and styling to look good. While your natural hair heals and grows back, having a little help to look and feel good is the right way to do it. Feeling good about own self and looking good has a way of releasing the feel good-hormones which helps.
- Natural hair care and skin care. The more you go back to natural products, the better it is. The best part about natural products is they can be as easy as using the homemade curd as a hair pack. Hot oil therapy at home with coconut oil can go a long way in providing much-needed nutrition to your hair.
- A diet rich in fruits and veggies are important.
- Don’t forget to include prebiotics and probiotics to rehabilitate the friendly bacteria in the gut.
- Avoid excessive spice food smoking or alcohol. All these make healing difficult.
Supplements
- Have multivitamins and multiminerals for supplementing nutrition and help your cells recover. Using Vitamin E mixed with hair oil helps improve hair quality.
- Antioxidants play a big role in helping your cells recover.
For the Mind
- Meditation and exercise have a big role to play.
- Take up a hobby.
- Garden, draw, write. Creativity helps you heal faster.
- Read books filled with optimism.
Immunity and Hydration
- Drink adequate water because drying of the mucosa increases after radiotherapy.
- Take care of your hygiene. Immunity being lower, you need to be very careful about using a public washroom.
Remember radiotherapy rays help kill the evil cancer cells, but your brave soldier cells get a beating too. To help them recover you need to give them a helping hand.
Disclaimer: This is an article meant for spreading awareness and not to be considered as professional medical advice. Kindly take all healthcare decisions after consultation with your doctor. This is a sponsored post. All opinions are mine. Read my full disclosure
Amrita, what a valuable post. If you’d be prepared to share it, I’d love to post it on my website for inspiration and encouragement for those facing cancer. Let me know. I do have a couple of posts on that site for hair care but they’re not as good as this one. Alternatively I could try to share the link and hope others follow it.
Hi Shirley thank you for sharing the link.I am glad you found this useful.Appreciate your kindness.
Thanks for generating awareness with this post Amrita. Few small things can help the patient battle better with the dreaded disease.
I am glad you are sharing these. There are so many people who need the right advice to recover and improve the quality of life.
Cancer really takes a toll on our body. The way it affects the immune system of the body, it’s just disastrous. Your article would certainly help out many people.
Some really good tips specially for women after the treatment for cancer. It is very for us men to go bald but it is not easy for women specially if they worry a lot about their appearance.
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Informative post about the good food habits. A little change in lifestyle will sure make a big change in our life. Eat healthy stay healthy
Any cancer treatment is painful and recovering from it takes time. Great tips.
I personally know people who have come out of this dreadful disease!! Sharing this piece of information for them.
Informative as always! I agree helping our body heal physically, mentally and emotionally is important and necessary while treating cancer
Healing meditation plays a great role in this case.
An informative post.
you’re absolutely right Dr Amrita, we being doctors at times forget the aesthetic and emotional side effects of treatments which are essential for well being of patients. wig, diet & meditation are great idea. #superbloggerchallenge2018. #instacuppa
To survive the treatment and recover from illness is one thing . But to get back to life as normal as before is no easy task for any cancer survivor. Thank you for sharing the simple and easy tips.
A very useful post. Just hope everyone who went through this surgery uses these tipz.
V.Informative post, Dr.Amrita! Sorry about name mix-up earlier
Very helpful post. No one knows when and who can get hit by this disease. So, it is better for us to be prepared.
Informative post Amrita. I cannot imagine how the confidence lowers when taking these kind of treatments. Lifestyle and diet changes will surely help them.
You have mentioned all the important tips for different aspects . I think mind plays the biggest role
Cancer is unwanted.., so are the side effects of its treatment. A good write up about self care.
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Very nice article , its tremendous difficult situation has to face after radiotherapy of a cancer patients.
Thank you for writing and sharing this wonderful and highly informative post. Loved the last line and the tips you have shared for the mind #Superbloggerchallenge #Instacuppa
Wonderful article. Socially relevant and touching.
Thanks for writing for this cause.
Proper diet is so important after such therapies and using a Wig or hair extension is also a good idea .
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Extremely well written article. This is something I hadn’t really im considered, though I’m a doc.
Thanks Roshan
informative post, indeed after such a major treatments (radiotherapy) it is very important to pay attention on your lifestyle and diet. these are the things that could make a major difference in healing and overall life expectancy of patients. thanks for sharing this valuable information.