What should families do in the face of their terminally ill relatives? Three suggestions may help you

"Mom, are you in pain, I'll give you morphine right away to stop the pain?" Mr. Chen looked at his terminal lung cancer mother in his hospital bed and burst into tears.
"I'm... Chest tightness... I can't breathe.
" Mr. Chen's mother shook her head, pointed to her throat, and spent a while expressing herself intermittently.
this situation can scare Mr. Chen, so hastened to send his mother to the hospital for treatment.
explained that not only do patients with advanced cancer suffer from cancer, but other unwell reactions can also make patients with advanced cancer suffer.
the pain of cancer in its late stages? Patients with advanced cancer, often accompanied by the metastasis of cancer cells, so the body will appear a variety of corresponding symptoms.
such as advanced esophageal cancer may appear lung metastasis, patients will appear cough, chest pain and a series of symptoms, when the outbreak of cancer pain, can be described as life is better than death.
chest tightness: primary lung cancer and metastatic lung cancer patients, in the late stages of chest tightness and wheezing symptoms.
An part of the reason is the impact of the tumor itself on the lungs, on the other hand, cancer cells will be soaked in the lungs to form a fluid flow to the abdominal cavity, the patient caused a certain sense of oppression, the more fluid the more intense the feeling of oppression, serious, just like someone choked the throat, painful suffocation hit the patient.
because it is a physiological sense of oppression, it is difficult to relieve symptoms even if the patient is given oxygen.
obstruction: esophageal cancer in some areas is known as "food isolation disease", advanced esophageal cancer patients because of the huge esophardoesic tumors make it difficult to swallow, food can not enter the esophardoes and form obstruction.
patients with advanced bowel cancer also face a blockage in their intestines, which in turn causes feces to not excrete to form obstructions.
the suffering of patients with eating disorders and detocation disorders caused by this obstruction is indescribable.
: Vomiting symptoms can occur in patients with a variety of cancer types, but digestive tract tumor disease is relatively common in patients.
some patients vomit during treatment due to strong side effects, others because of the progression of the disease, tumors block the esophary or have an effect on the stomach, making it difficult for patients to swallow, and then vomiting.
: Patients with advanced cancer generally face symptoms of pain, which is systemic or local.
such as lung metastasis cancer will appear chest pain or shoulder pain, if there is bone metastasis, the transfer site will also be severe pain.
clinically, cancer pain is classified as mild, moderate and severe pain.
There is no difference between mild pain and the pain felt by healthy groups in daily life; moderate pain can affect a patient's diet and sleep, causing the patient to endure; severe pain can seriously interfere with the patient's diet and sleep, patients will be unable to sleep because of pain, or even suicide due to pain."
and it's worth noting that cancerous pain is not just a feeling in itself, it's a disease.
02. In the advanced stages of cancer, the most important solution is that patients with painful advanced cancer are very painful, but clinically, the corresponding different symptoms, there are related treatment and mitigation measures.
the fluid ascension caused by chest tightness: clinically can be extracted by the way of abdominal water to relieve the patient's feeling of oppression, but after extraction, if there is no corresponding treatment measures, the fluid will continue to produce, so doctors will often leave a catheter for the patient, so that the fluid can be excreted at any time.
tumours block the intestines of esophageal patients: clinically, the patient's nutrient absorption is ensured by the delivery of nutrient fluids.
if it is an intestinal obstruction, a catheter can also be used to assist the patient in detoctal function.
: If it is vomiting caused by loss of appetite, the symptoms can be alleviated by medication.
if the tumor causes the patient to vomit and cannot eat, you can take the method of injecting nutrients to ensure the nutritional intake of the patient.
cancerous pain: clinically, the classification of cancer pain corresponds to the drug.
Mild pain takes nonsteroidal painkillers such as aspirin, ibuprofen, etc.; moderate pain is used with weak opioid painkillers and drugs combined with mild pain, such as quemado, canine, etc.; and severe pain is treated with opioid painkillers such as oxycodone, fentanyl patches, morphine tablets, and so on.
is the strongest painkiller ever found in humans, directly acting on the brain's opioids, playing a powerful analgesic effect.
03. Late stage of cancer, continue treatment or conservative treatment? What kind of treatment method to take in patients with advanced cancer should be analyzed according to the specific situation.
first look at the type of cancer and the degree of development.
if there are many lesions in patients with advanced cancer and they are accompanied by metastasis, but the treatment is effective and does not continue to deteriorate, the appropriate treatment can continue.
both mitigation and control of the lesions continue to expand, which is beneficial to the survival of patients.
if the lesions continue to expand and have no effect, palliative care can be performed to alleviate the patient's pain.
such as pain relief, for different symptoms to take appropriate treatment, to maximize the relief of the patient's pain.
then look at the patient's physique.
if the patient is in good health and the treatment method is effective, the treatment can continue.
if the patient is too weak to withstand the side effects of treatment, palliative care can be selected for the patient's discomfort symptoms on the advice of the doctor and the patient's condition.
what do you do to the families of patients with advanced cancer? Some of the relatives were diagnosed with cancer, which is extremely painful, but as a patient's dependence, the family had to be strong to support the patient for a day.
1. The family of the patient should know more about the patient's specific condition from the doctor in time, and communicate the patient's treatment plan and other related issues.
2. Family members should also not ignore the wishes of patients with advanced cancer and d'o ages for in-depth treatment, as this may not only result in a patient not getting a good prognostication, but may also result in painful death, so it is best for the family to judge whether to continue treatment on the advice of the doctor and the patient's wishes.
3. Most importantly, cancer patients may have serious psychological problems as a result of suffering from the double whammy of the disease.
this requires patient care and psychological guidance from the family to help the patient through the despair phase, or to accompany the patient to face the coming of death.
in short, the suffering of terminal cancer patients is not that we ordinary people can imagine and feel the same way, only those who have experienced it can understand the pain.
patients with advanced cancer, whether they continue treatment or palliative care, are right or wrong and their choices should be respected.
as the spiritual pillar of the patient, the family needs to pay attention not only to the patient's condition, but also to the patient's psychological situation.
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