The phrase
"to mask the symptoms" means hiding or covering up the signs of a problem or illness without addressing the actual cause.
Full definition
Functional medicine is an approach to treatment in which the doctor seeks to discover the root causes of the issue and restore balance to your body, not just
mask the symptoms with medication.
We work with you to develop a holistic treatment plan that takes you as a whole into account and will address the cause of your problem and not
just mask your symptoms.
As doctors, we need to let the body do its work to heal, not
simply mask symptoms with often - times harmful, costly and ineffective medications.
Indeed, your gut may be the most forthcoming part of your body, unable to
mask the symptoms when something is wrong — and that's a good thing.
Don't administer fever medicine (unless the doctor advises it)-- you don't want to
mask any symptoms before your baby is examined.
In conventional medicine, the tendency is to throw prescriptions at problems to try to
mask symptoms rather than to treat the root cause.
The mainstream narrative regarding fertility is that there is something «broken» or wrong with you and we can fix it by cutting, or we can
mask symptoms by adding chemicals.
Symptoms of substance abuse or addiction can
mask symptoms of mental illness, and symptoms of mental illness can be confused with symptoms of addiction.
Often these medications are only effective
in masking the symptoms of disease; they do not cure the underlying causes of disease.
Our success will only come when the disease crippling our quality of life is cured;
merely masking the symptoms with flashy headlines does nothing to move us forward.
It often fails though in the treatment of chronic conditions where the focus is
on masking symptoms as opposed to curing the underlying condition.
In the meantime, it cautions parents who use them in that age group to, among other things, carefully follow dosing directions, only use measuring spoons or cups that come with or are specifically designed to be used with the drugs, and remember that the drugs, at best,
temporarily mask symptoms of but neither cure nor shorten the duration of colds or coughs.
This is far more profound and long lasting than
masking your symptoms so you can continue with wrong lifestyle choices or hiding your pain.
Thus, females are likely to compensate and
even mask symptoms more successfully than males.
The five FDA - approved drugs available
today mask the symptoms but don't currently treat the causes of Alzheimer's.
Too often we load our bodies with chemicals and prescriptions to
mask symptoms without ever pursuing the root cause.
Psychotropic medications
often mask symptoms of illness in the short - term, thereby establishing medical efficacy, but create new and potentially more dangerous impacts in the long - term that have been largely unstudied and unmeasured.
The conventional remedies that are offered to modern women (pain killers, mood enhancers, and birth control pills) do not heal hormonal imbalances — they only
mask the symptoms resulting in more severe health issues over time.
The over-the-counter
meds masked his symptoms in the short term, but when they wore off, his symptoms came back worse than before.
Conventional
medicines mask symptoms and hinder the healing process where natural remedies support the body to heal.
Are you interested in using natural types of treatment that help your body to heal from within rather than
just masking your symptoms with pharmaceuticals?
Instead of
simply masking the symptoms with Band - aid medicine we can use the new Complement Antigen Test to determine the food sensitivities or food allergies that are special to you.
Plus, an outside observer may not even realize someone is having a panic attack because he or she is skilled
at masking symptoms.
Stress may also lead to self - medicating with substances, which
merely mask symptoms, provides no solutions, and can create more difficulties over time.
Because children born to moms with autoimmune diseases such as Hashimoto's hypothyroidism are already at higher risk for allergies, autism, and other immune disorders, it's especially important to address root causes of health symptoms in your children instead of
masking symptoms with chronic pharmaceutical use.
As with treatment of other chronic conditions, the focus is almost always
on masking the symptoms rather than getting at the underlying cause.
By addressing the underlying problem, whatever symptoms you do have will resolve naturally rather than alternative methods that
temporarily mask the symptoms, often unsuccessfully.