I’ve started having ulcers and my mouth inside of my lips are sore and red. Anyone have any ideas of how to improve this? My lips are also incredibly dry.
Hello!
I started treatment last week on AC (doxorubicin hydrochloride (Adriamycin) and cyclophosphamide) chemo last week. I decided to be super proactive because I was terrified of mouth sores. This has been successful so far (I know I’m super early to the game):
oil pulling every morning with coconut oil, clove oil and peppermint oil for 15-20min.
swishing with salt and baking soda after I eat.
I ordered Biotene toothbrush and mouthwash.
so far my mouth is great!
I sucked ice lollies during chemo infusion of fec and docetaxol and it helped preserve mouth, took them in a mini cool box and managed like that, it was a tip passed to me from a lady who had previously gone through chemo. Biotene mouth sloosh helped too. Do keep eye out for thrush mouth, chemo can cause this, it’ll need antibiotics if it happens, your teams have seen it before and will prescribe antibiotics, hopefully you don’t get thrush mouth but fluconzole tablets worked well when it happened to me, not the drops they tried out first. Hope this helps 
Shi xx