A 21-year-old college football player has acknowledged to a nurse at a campus clinic that he has been injecting androgens in an effort to increase the size of his musculature and enhance his on-field performance
Which of the following teaching points should the nurse include in a conversation with the player?
A)
"You run a real risk of developing acne and developing breasts by doing this."
B)
"You will indeed be able to increase your muscles, but they will rebound by shrinking smaller than they ever were within a few months."
C)
"Most of the people who do this cause themselves to be permanently sterile."
D)
"A reduction in the size of your penis and the production of mutated sperm can be an effect of steroid use."
Ans:
A
Feedback:
Testicular atrophy and gynecomastia are identified as the effects of anabolic steroid use. Rebound muscle atrophy is not a noted phenomenon that accompanies the steroid use, nor is a permanent cessation of spermatogenesis. Changes in penis size and mutation in sperm cell divisions are similarly unlikely.
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