"treating symptoms" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use this phrase to refer to a method of addressing the signs or indicators of a medical condition. For example, "The doctor prescribed medication to treat the patient's symptoms."
The narrow focus on gangs is treating symptoms rather causes and could even prove counterproductive.
It is important to emphasize the difference between treating symptoms and preventing future conditions.
For them, care has focused on treating symptoms with antihistamines and decongestants, not diagnosing the allergy and avoiding its triggers.
With their austere neutrality, they leave a distinct impression: Psychiatrists are methodically treating symptoms, not people.
Accordingly, many psychiatrists hold the view that treating symptoms with medication is treating mental illness.
The Alzheimer's trial, it is suggested, represents an excessively radical solution to treating symptoms when most modern researchers are focusing on the cause of the disease.
Pessimists, on the other hand, think such policies are merely treating symptoms of the issue and not the real problem.
"I think we really have to recognize when we are treating symptoms and not really solving the problem".
Dr. Cox argues that allergists get to the root of the cause instead of just treating symptoms.
It is the most thoroughly studied herb for treating symptoms of menopause, and research has found it fairly effective against hot flashes, mood changes and vaginal dryness, said Dr. Varro E. Tyler, professor emeritus of pharmacognosy at Purdue University.
Iberogast is a combination of nine herbs and plant extracts, and appears to be effective in treating symptoms of indigestion and IBS with minimal side-effects.
