Medical treatment that only affects a condition's symptoms
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Symptomatic treatment, supportive care, supportive therapy, or palliative treatment is any medical therapy of a disease that only affects its symptoms, not the underlying cause. It is usually aimed at reducing the signs and symptoms for the comfort and well-being of the patient, but it also may be useful in reducing organic consequences and sequelae of these signs and symptoms of the disease. In many diseases, even in those whose etiologies are known (e.g., most viral diseases, such as influenza and Rift Valley fever), symptomatic treatment is the only treatment available so far. For more detail, see supportive therapy. For conditions like cancer, arthritis, neuropathy, tendinopathy, and injury, it can be useful to distinguish treatments that are supportive/palliative and cannot alter the natural history of the disease (disease modifying treatments).
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MJ, Roberts NW, Perera R, Heneghan CJ, et al. (September 2014). "Symptomatictreatment of the cough in whooping cough". The Cochrane Database of Systematic...
desloratadine. Bilastine is approved in the European Union for the symptomatictreatment of allergic conjunctivitis and urticaria. It is not approved for...
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reducing properties. Its approved indications are the treatment of acute pain, the symptomatictreatment of osteoarthritis, and primary dysmenorrhoea in adolescents...
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surgical treatment has been subject to debate and development. Following surgical treatment, approximately 25% of people remain symptomatic. In uncomplicated...
some of its derivative compounds found use as decongestants in the symptomatictreatment of colds and also occasionally as psychoactive agents. Their effects...
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than the glomerulus specifically. [citation needed] Treatment of glomerulonephrosis involves treatment of both symptoms and the glomerulus itself. A majority...
Tetrabenazine is a drug for the symptomatictreatment of hyperkinetic movement disorders. It is sold under the brand names Nitoman and Xenazine among...
well as imaging and more specialized testing. In addition to symptomatictreatment, treatment depends on the nature of the underlying disease and can be...
intravenous immunoglobulin. It may also be used as an adjunct therapy in symptomatictreatment of mastocytosis. It is taken by mouth, as a tablet, chewable tablet...
treating RPON. Potential treatments for RPON can be divided into three main categories: preventative therapy, symptomatictreatment, and management of residual...
only symptomatictreatment. In other cases, however, infection can lead to small bowel obstruction, which may require surgery, although treatment with...
are reasonable conservative measures. Much of the benefit from symptomatictreatment is, however, attributed to the placebo effect. As of 2010,[update]...
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sufficient to cause the disorder. There is no treatment for the underlying condition. Supportive/symptomatictreatment is based on the traits present in each...
under the brand name Urief among others, is a medication for the symptomatictreatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia. It acts as an alpha-1 adrenergic...
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