When performing an assessment of a child with recurrent abdominal pain (RAP), the nurse recognizes the child will most likely experience:
a. increased temperature.
b. constipation.
c. right quadrant pain.
d. exercise-associated pain.
B
The child is usually constipated with periumbilical pain unrelated to eating, defecation, or exercise.
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