A 28-year-old female client is diagnosed with inflammatory disease of the small bowel
When the client describes numerous daily bowel movements but denies the presence of bloody stool, the nurse realizes that this client was most likely diagnosed with: 1. Crohn's disease.
2. Ulcerative colitis.
3. Chronic diarrhea.
4. Gastroenteritis.
Crohn's disease.
Rationale: Crohn's disease is an inflammatory disease of the small bowel that does not present bloody stool as a common characteristic sign. Ulcerative colitis affects the large intestine. Neither chronic diarrhea nor gastroenteritis is necessarily characterized by bloody stool.
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