A patient tells the nurse that he thought that he would feel better because it has been a few days since his radiation exposure, but he still feels weak and tired. What is the nurse's best response to this patient?
1. "Increasing your activity will help with the feelings of fatigue."
2. "After your strength returns, you might have diarrhea."
3. "This means that your body is healing."
4. "The weak and tired feelings will continue for a while longer."
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Rationale 1: Increasing activity will not help with the fatigue caused by this syndrome.
Rationale 2: Diarrhea will precede the feelings of fatigue.
Rationale 3: This feeling of fatigue does not mean that the patient's body is healing.
Rationale 4: During the prodromal phase of acute radiation syndrome, the gastrointestinal symptoms of nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea usually resolve within 2 days, but the fatigue and malaise often continue.
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