A patient has had several increasingly severe allergic reactions during last year's pollen season. This year, the patient comes regularly to the office to receive some antigen injections. The nurse teaches that these will:
1. combat infection brought on by the allergic response.
2. act as a steroid to lessen the allergic response.
3. increase tolerance to the antigen.
4. decrease the production of the antibodies.
3
Injections of increasing amounts of minute doses of the antigen will desensitize the body against the antigen.
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1. Informed consent 2. Express consent 3. Implied consent 4. Compliance
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