Radiotherapy Donts

The list is long! I've been going to RT for 3 weeks and you hear something new everyday.

Make sure you've been fasting for 4 hours before your chemo(Chemotherapy for the brain is in the form of capsules that you take orally half to one hour before each session of radiotherapy.) Not everyone tells you this. So if you are not told, you enquire!!!

Don't eat for an hour after ( you can have liquids)

DO NOT wet the area that is being treated for the entire duration of the treatment. Yes, even if it is for 6 weeks.

Once you start radiotherapy , there are some foods that you MUST not have;
refined sugar ( the mooshy mooshys have a sweet tooth).Next anything thats deep fried.(radiologists advice this as it could give you an infection.)
Avoid all meat except fish.
Stay away from diary products.
Among fruits, avoid any fruit that gas thin skin like appples, guava, grapes and papaya. Also no bananas. Not because of the skin, but because it might constipate you. Honestly, right now, you dont need that.

Now is the time to explore your palate, the side that no restaurant caters too! :)

Your body is already fighting against a lot, so dont give it anymore reasons because you felt like having fries!!

oooooh I think I forgot, NOOOOO alcohol.The merry making will have to wait!


Anyway your doctor will probably tell you that its OK to have any kind of food. Allopathic medicine does not consider your diet as part of your post op treatment. Unless ofcourse you're tipping the scales at 300 and your hearts slowly giving up on you.

Alternative healing sciences like Ayurveda will ,on the other hand, tell you exactly what yoy must not eat.
You need to detox your body as well after all the trauma its been through, so if you can't meet someone who practises Ayurveda atleast dont put more toxins into your body.

Fun actiity for the day-- How about that massage you've been meaning to treat youraelf to?






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