The nurse evaluates client ileostomy effluent. Which does the nurse expect for the client's output from the ileostomy?
1. 500 ml of formed stool
2. 1000 ml of pasty stool
3. Liquid stool three liters
4. Semiformed stool two liters
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2. The normal ileostomy stool is pasty and of significant volume because the ileum is the terminal section of the small intestines; therefore, water absorption, most of which occurs in the large intestines, is not completed. Water absorption in the large intestines decreases the volume and produces a firmer stool.
1. Five hundred milliliters of formed stool is more consistent with colostomy stool.
3 and 4. Two to three liters of stool is an excessive volume of liquid stool and an ex-ceedingly large amount of semiformed stool.
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