When the patient asks the nurse the significance of white, curd-like discharge from the vagina, the nurse responds that the:
A) Drainage is physiologic and normal.
B) Patient may have a Candida species infection.
C) Drainage is caused by vaginal dryness.
D) The patient may have Chlamydia.
Ans: B
Feedback: Mucus or white discharge from the vagina is physiologic and normal. Drainage caused by Candida is curd-like and white, while infection with Trichomonas is often frothy/yellow green in color. Vaginal dryness causes scant and mucoid drainage that may be blood-tinged.
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