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