• Inform your doctor about all of your medications and allergies.
• Don't take herbal medicines or vitamin supplements without checking with your doctor.
• Stay well-rested. Radiation often causes fatigue.
• Eat a healthy, balanced diet.
• Wear loose-fitting, non-starched clothes over treatment areas.
• Take extra good care of your skin, and ask before using soaps, lotions, deodorants, sun blocks, medicines, perfumes, cosmetics, talcum powder, or other substances in the treated area.
• Protect skin from sun. Cover with light clothing or ask your doctor about sun screen.
• Use only paper tape if bandaging the treated area is necessary.
• Use lukewarm water for bathing treated area. Avoid heat or cold.

This information is provided by the National Cancer Institute.  It was added to this site on November 12, 2003 and last updated on January 29, 2004.