An excited mother of a teenage boy with severe acne furiously reports to the nurse, "I've told him a thousand times he should bathe more often! I've kept after him about all that junk food he eats
I jump on him when I see him squeezing his zits. I tried to get him to scrub his face three times a day!" The complaint the nurse recognizes as a true statement about the cause of acne is: 1. poor personal hygiene.
2. ingestion of junk food.
3. squeezing lesions.
4. need for facial scrubs.
3
Squeezing the lesions may cause them to spread and push the infection deeper into the folli-cles. Options 1, 2, and 4 are myths.
PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Comprehension REF: 1139
OBJ: 8 TOP: Acne KEY: Nursing Process Step: Planning
MSC: NCLEX: Health Promotion and Maintenance
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