An adolescent complains of recurrent abdominal pain with diarrhea and bloody stools. The nurse should recognize these as symptoms of which inflammatory bowel disease?
1. Necrotizing enterocolitis
2. Ulcerative colitis
3. Crohn's disease
4. Appendicitis
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Rationale 1: Necrotizing enterocolitis is usually seen in premature infants and generally not in an adolescent patient.
Rationale 2: Diarrhea and bloody stools are typical symptoms of UC.
Rationale 3: The teen with Crohn's disease might have abdominal pain and diarrhea, but stools usually do not have blood in them.
Rationale 4: Appendicitis is not associated with bloody stools and usually not with diarrhea.
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