An 8-year-old girl is brought by her mother to the outpatient clinic with complaints of abdominal cramping and greenish diarrhea. A diagnosis of shigellosis is made after a stool culture
Identify the discharge instruction by the nurse that best explains the requirement for enteric precautions at home.
a. Enteric precautions only have to be main-tained until the diarrhea stops.
b. The child must remain on enteric precau-tions until she has three stool cultures negative for Shigella.
c. After the child has been taking the anti-biotics for 48 hours, you can stop the en-teric precautions.
d. The child must remain on enteric precau-tions for 30 days or until her viral titer is normal.
B
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