The nurse is taking a drug history from a patient about her medication, and the patient tells the nurse that the one aspirin she takes a day gives her stomach pain. The patient is having which kind of reaction?
a. Allergy
b. Side effect
c. Toxic
d. Paradoxical
ANS: B
If the patient has nausea or stomach pain when taking aspirin, that is a side effect but not an allergy.
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