Telva World Breast Cancer Day: So you can take care of your skin if you are on oncological treatment

Stay without hair, without eyebrows, with sensitive skin...There are many women who go through this once they are diagnosed with cancer and begin their chemo or radiotherapy treatments.The most important thing is to heal, we have no doubt, but that is that oncological aesthetics is part of the process.And if there is a person who has been fighting for years because this is Judith Mata, executive director of the Ricardo Fisas Natura Bissé Foundation, who has been forming aestheticists for 11 years and has made about 10.000 individual and free treatments in hospitals and patient associations in Spain.She tells us, in 5 keys, how we can take care of our skin once we have started oncological treatment.You can listen to it in our podcast, beauty is ours, clicking here:

First step: look for your aestheticist

"When you have a cancer diagnosis there is an orchestra director, which is the oncologist, but you have to look for that profile that will advise you on everything related to food, skin care, makeup, capillary prosthesis...It is usually a case manager, the hospital nurse in which they take care that he deals with all this.If that profile does not exist, go to the association of patients closer to your home and there you will find answers to all this.The Spanish Association against Cancer reaches everywhere ".

How to take care of the skin

"Think that it is like that of a baby: it must clean and hydrate twice a day face, neck and neckline, with without alcohol, and apply Spf50 sunscreen; washed with neutral shampoo and soap and water neither too cold nor too hot,and then dry with the towel, with small touches (never rubbing); twice a day and, depending on the skin status, hydrating it with moisturizing and nutritious products, such as rose oil or almond oil, karité or mango butter".

Eyebrows, wig...Do not be ashamed

"I am not ashamed to ask the oncologist if you are going to lose your hair or eyebrows...65 % of cases lose them.Worry about your physique is not a banality.The eyebrows ideal is to draw them before they fall so as not to lose their original stroke ".

Quiet: When you finish the medication you will have your skin again

"You don't have to change your entire beauty closet for being in treatment with chemotherapy, although in 80% of cases the skin is more reactive, so the routine would have to be adapted to this new condition.And, above all, quiet: when you finish the treatment you will return to how you were before.

On fragile nails, avoid semi -permanent enameled and moisturizes every cuticle night and nails with oils.And one last trick: shelter the scalp at night since it is an area through which it enters very cold in the body.You can sleep with a hat and so you will avoid contractures ".