When cancer can not be controlled or recurs and the invasion of malignant cells without the medical science able to do much, it is said that the patient has a terminal cancer.
At this stage it is very difficult for patients and their families, it requires all the support and spirituality and emotional strength.
Patients often have severe pain, for which various medications are used that can be administered orally or injected subcutaneously or intravenously muscle as applicable.
Since the effect of the drugs within the body is relatively short, ideally oral administration, as through injection, the procedure is generally annoying, uncomfortable and painful when done several times a day.
Something very important is to know that sometimes the administration of certain drugs injected, together with the weakness of the sick can cause death by respiratory arrest. So the person administering the medication, especially if a family should be aware of this fact and in case of failure to handle the result, is better to apply for outside help to inject the patient.
In all cases, medical attention, not only physically, but emotionally is necessary.
Many of the drugs used are drugs such as morphine, hydromorphone and diamorphine, which in addition to providing relief from severe pain, also allow you to relax properly.
When drugs do not work, there are techniques that block pain are administered by anesthesiologists and have proved very effective addition to contributing to decreased use of analgesics or drugs also prevent terminal cancer side effects and allowing patients to enhance their quality of life.
These techniques use neurolytic substances, such as ethanol and phenol, with the aim of destroying the nerves that carry pain information to the brain. It is very important that this procedure is performed by a doctor who specializes in pain management, because if not done properly can cause further discomfort and damage to nerves, increasing the pain of a terminal cancer rather than control it. It is also important that the patient is aware of the numbing effect it will have on the body part blocked.
It is being tested with drugs administered rectally, or by inhalation, with the limitations that each of these techniques have to certain types of cancer.
In any case, the timing is extremely difficult for all family members, and recommends giving lots of company, be calm, because many problems arise sometimes when all the relatives want to say or do something for the sick and the opinions do not match, As more stress lies on the patient the person requires all the love and peace
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