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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.
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Symptomatic treatment: Therapy that eases the symptoms without addressing the basic cause of the disease. For example, symptomatic treatment of advanced lung cancer that has spread (metastasized) beyond the lung is designed to decrease the pain and other symptoms but not to eradicate the disease.
symp·to·mat·ic treat·ment. therapy aimed at relieving symptoms without necessarily affecting the basic underlying cause (s) of the symptoms.
1. a. : being a symptom of a disease. b. : having the characteristics of a particular disease but arising from another cause. symptomatic epilepsy resulting from brain damage. 2. : concerned with, affecting, or having symptoms. symptomatic treatment. a symptomatic patient. 3. : characteristic, indicative.
Symptomatic treatment involves the use of analgesics and antipyretics to relieve symptoms of headache, fever and myalgia. For cough or dyspnea, self-proning (patient with respiratory distress is placed on his stomach) provides symptomatic improvement.
Symptomatic treatment refers to medical interventions that aim to alleviate the symptoms experienced by a patient, rather than addressing the underlying cause of the condition. The primary goal of symptomatic treatment is to improve the patient's subjective experience of their illness or discomfort, rather than to improve objective measures ...
1. pertaining to or of the nature of a symptom. 2. indicative (of a particular disease or disorder). 3. exhibiting the symptoms of a particular disease but having a different cause. 4. directed at the allaying of symptoms, as symptomatic treatment.
