Palliative care can be received by patients at any time, at any stage of illness. Palliative care is known as “comfort” care. It is the treatment of comfort for those with a serious or life threatening illness. It is for those with illnesses that have become unresponsive to medicinal treatments. Key Health Pharmacy and Compounding will work with doctors and practitioners to compound any medicines that may help with relief from any distressing symptoms.
Distressing symptoms:
- pain management
- nausea and vomiting
- dry mouth or sore mouth
- constipation
- problems of sleep
- loss of appetite
- fatigue
- shortness of breath
- wound care
- Any side effects of the medical treatments your receiving
For Palliative Care, the goal of Key Health Pharmacy is to make a patient feel comfortable. We can compound medicines to help with the above distressing symptoms, but also get rid of side effects by compounding medicines to work with the patient’s body.