Week 4 Recovery

Caphosol worked for me, Mac nurse advised that it would loosen tough mucus, had to have some sleeping tabs also, decent sleep is essential to aid recovery.

M

What’s happening is that the watery portion of saliva has been hammered leaving the mucous part intact which is why everything is so sticky. He can try to dilute it and that’s why steaming or nebulising can help as can frequent tiny sips of water. A water spray might work. 
The good news is that the damaged cells do repair somewhat and it does get better and often very suddenly. 
Some people get help from a drug designed to thin mucous called carbocysteine  

By the way sticky saliva isn’t mucositis. Mucositis is the intense ulceration and inflammation you get from RT damage to the mucous membrane ( moist lining) of the mouth and throat. 
What your husband has is just sticky saliva. 

Hi Rara . I had carbusistine to help thin the mucus it helped a little. But the key to recovery as others have said is sleep hydration and food. Yiu might not think it it but 4 weeks is still early I liken recovery to a marathon nit a sprint and some weeks 2 stela forward and 1 step back. There no magic cure sadly as Dani says iur saliva glands take a battering and even niw at 7 years I still need xyimelts at nughtas my mouth goes really dry he will get there just takes time. Hugs 

Hazel x

Thanks for the explanation.  When did it get better for you?

Rara2 said:

When did it get better for you?

Around 8 weeks after though I didn’t suffer too badly 

Hi, alongside things that others have already mentioned, I thought it was worth sharing that a few days after I finished treatment one of my RT team suggested I try sparkling water... it was an absolute game changer for me :-)