Common gastrointestinal symptoms in pediatric palliative care: nausea, vomiting, constipation, anorexia, cachexia

Common gastrointestinal symptoms in pediatric palliative care: nausea, vomiting, constipation, anorexia, cachexia

Santucci G; Mack JW

Pediatric Clinics Of North America

2007

Child; Humans; Palliative Care; Neoplasms/complications; Anorexia/etiology/therapy; Cachexia/etiology/therapy; Constipation/drug therapy/etiology; Medulla Oblongata/physiology; Nausea/etiology/therapy; Vomiting/etiology/prevention & control

Gastrointestinal symptoms are suffered commonly by children at the end of life. Diagnosis and management of these common symptoms include careful history and physical examination to assess for possible causes

treatment - pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic

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