The nurse is preparing a patient with peptic ulcer disease for discharge to home. What informa-tion does the nurse include in patient teaching about testing stool for occult blood?
a. Positive results indicate active bleeding.
b. It is necessary to eat poultry and fish be-fore testing.
c. Each stool specimen provides one sample for testing.
d. Menstruation postpones the testing for occult blood.
D
When the patient is menstruating, testing for occult blood is ineffective because the test does not discriminate between menstrual blood and occult blood from the gastrointestinal tract. The nurse instructs the patient to wait until blood flow ceases, provide self-care of the perineum, and then test for occult blood. Positive results indicate the presence of blood but do not distinguish be-tween new or old blood. The nurse observes the stool to assess the age of the blood more accu-rately because active bleeding tends to be bright red, whereas old blood is dark red. However, if the active bleeding occurs in the stomach, the blood in the stool will look old (dark) because the blood ages as it travels through the gastrointestinal system. The patient does not have to eat fish or poultry before testing but avoids red meat because it potentially increases the redness of stool. Each stool specimen provides two samples for testing.
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