Palliative Therapies

Palliative therapy is not intended to cure the disease. The main focus of palliative therapy is management of pain and other troublesome symptoms such as shortness of breath, fatigue, dry mouth, nausea, poor appetite, skin problems, anxiety and depression. It also includes integration of psychological and spiritual aspects of patient care. Palliative therapy offers a support system to help patients live as lively as possible until death and helps the family cope with the patient’s disease and their own sorrow. This therapy is suitable for people of any age and at any point of time during the illness. In general, palliative therapy is given for severe diseases when all curative measures are found ineffective. However, it can also be delivered along with treatments that are meant to cure the disease.

 

 

 

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