According to the context in which it is applied, the term treatment will refer to various issues.
In general terms, by treatment, the action and the result of dealing with some question or thing, that is, the form or those means that will be used to get to know the essence that makes up something and that is not presented to us clearly, either because not known or because its composition was altered by other components.
Medical treatment. Lessons
While, In a strictly medical context, without a doubt the meaning of the term that is most used, the treatment will be the set of means of any kind, hygienic, pharmacological, surgical or physical, which will have as a primary purpose the cure or the relief of diseases or some symptoms of these once they have already been diagnosed.
There are different types of treatments when it comes to alleviating a disease, among them we can highlight the following: the doctor, who will be the one that uses mainly drugs; the surgical one, that is the one that uses the means of the surgery to extract the evil; the specific one, which will be the one aimed at attacking the cause that causes the disease; the palliative, the one that will try as much as possible to offer the patient the maximum possible well-being since there is no concrete cure against the disease he suffers; occupational therapy; apitherapy, which is a treatment that uses bees; physiotherapy; rehabilitation; psychotherapy; radiotherapy, among others.
Meanwhile, it should be noted that a medical professional is in charge of indicating what is the best treatment that a patient should face or carry out to cure his clinical picture or to temper the symptoms that arise from any disease.
We specify that it is a doctor who specializes in the pathology that the patient presents who must make the indication of the treatment, in the first instance because of the knowledge that he has of it and secondly because after analyzing the clinical case in question in detail: progress of the disease and its severity, will know how to indicate the best treatment to follow.
Although it is a reality that there are certain diseases, such as cancer, which are mostly treated in the same way, with chemotherapy, radiotherapy or surgery, it is important to note that not all individuals are the same even if they suffer from the same disease and then the treatment that It is good for one, it may not have an effect on another and for this reason it is always necessary to make a good diagnosis with the specialist and for it to be the one who indicates the best path that will lead to a cure.
Treatment of water and waste
On the other hand, at the request of the environmental engineering, The treatment will be that set of operations whose primary purpose is the elimination or reduction in the levels of contamination in both water and waste..
The work that is carried out at the request of the waters in this sense is of the utmost importance because water is the main and most direct way that exists for the dissemination of pathways and bacteria if they are contaminated. Let's think about the water we drink to quench our thirst, if that water that we serve directly from the tap at home did not have a special treatment that generates its purification, without a doubt, it would be a direct and ideal transmitter of contaminated material.
And in terms of waste, the treatment that is practiced on them is also very important, not only in terms of preventing highly toxic waste from coming into contact with humans and animals but also in terms of satisfactory separation. of the same that facilitates the contribution with recycling, that is, to continue using those materials that have a useful life and thus avoid the depletion of certain non-renewable resources.
Other applications of the term
Secondly, in ceremonial, the term treatment is used as a synonym of title and it allows to indicate how that person who has a noble distinction should be treated.
And finally, by treatment, it also refers to that procedure that is followed in an experience or when preparing a product.
