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- Patients should show their strength by not talking about pain or other
symptoms.
- Family members should avoid talking about pain and other symptoms
that upset them and their dying loved one.
- As the disease progresses, patients will feel better and have more
strength if they continue to eat and drink.
- Pain medicine usually causes excessive drowsiness and is disturbing
to patients and family members.
- Pain medication causes confusion in most dying people.
- Pain medicine often causes nausea that is distressing and difficult
to control.
- Constipation is an expected complication of pain medicine and cannot
be avoided.
- Death rattle is a sign of severe dyspnea.
- Oxygen is an effective treatment for all types of dyspnea.
- People who are not eating cannot be constipated.
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