Caring for your skin is important especially if you have lymphoedema. Any skin breaks can make you more likely to get an infection. Protect your hands by wearing gloves when gardening, washing dishes, or cleaning. Moisturise at least once a day with a good skin cream and avoid cuts, splits, and abrasions. To give your hands …
We include a tube of Sorbolene and Thursday Plantation Aloe Vera Gel in our Kit for Cancer Case to help with your radiation treatment. Skin is an organ and a barrier to fluid loss; any time it is compromised by a burn or sunburn and can struggle to maintain proper hydration levels. Unfortunately, radiation injures or kills healthy cells …
Over-washing, scrubbing, or sanitising helps slow the spread of Covid but this can wreck havoc on your poor hands. It may lead to dried-out, cracked outer layers of your skin leading to loss of hydration and inflammation. During these Winter months gloves and socks can get wet so it’s important to change as soon as …
Cold weather or a cold or flu can trigger mouth ulcers if your lips become too dry and you accidentally bite them. Chemotherapy can cause cracked lips through dryness, cracking, soreness, bleeding, infections that are fungal in origin, and cold sores from herpes simplex. This can be extremely painful especially when you open your mouth wide you …
With COVID-19 lockdown restrictions eased we will be venturing out and about again. Don’t forget the importance of hand washing and hand sanitising. No one wants their immune system compromised. All this frequent hand washing and hand sanitising can leave your hands cracked and dry. Give your hands some extra love and keep those hands moisturised. For lymphoedema sufferers moisturising and …
Keeping your skin moist using a moisturiser helps to stop your skin losing water and creates a protective layer. Caring for your skin is especially important if you have lymphoedema. Any skin breaks can make you more likely to get an infection. Moisturise your skin at least once a day with a good skin cream …
With the added worry of influenza and now Coronavirus (COVID-19), hand washing and hand sanitising becomes so vitally important. No one wants their immune system compromised. All this frequent hand washing and hand sanitising can leave your hands cracked and dry. Give your hands some extra love and keep those hands moisturised. For lymphoedema sufferers moisturising and skincare is extremely important …
Get a head start and make moisturising an essential part of your daily skin routine. If it’s chemotherapy or radiation your skin becomes sensitive to everything through the side effects of treatment. A gentle and sensitive moisturiser becomes an essential part of your daily skin routine. Moisturising is the key so wear an old t-shirt to …
Don’t forget to keep your lips hydrated this Summer. As part of your oral care it is important to moisturise your lips. We’ve included Burt’s Bees lip balm in Kit. It’s a 100% natural beauty product, free of parabens, phthalates, petrolatum and SLS. Dry lips can be a problem for cancer patients during treatment causing further discomfort and problems …
When out and about over this festive period your immunity can be low going through chemotherapy. It’s important not to pick up any rogue germs. Make sure you carry your hand sanitiser with you everywhere you go, especially public toilets. Wash your hands with soap and water but after you put your hands on the germy handle …
