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Title: When a patient asks the nurse what hypersensitivity is, how should the nurse respond? ... Post by: vincent_pijen on Feb 12, 2018 When a patient asks the nurse what hypersensitivity is, how should the nurse respond? Hypersen-sitivity is best defined as:
a. a reduced immune response found in most pathologic states. b. a normal immune response to an infectious agent. c. an excessive or inappropriate response of the immune system to a sensitizing anti-gen. d. antigenic desensitization. Title: When a patient asks the nurse what hypersensitivity is, how should the nurse respond? ... Post by: erical5 on Feb 12, 2018 ANS: C
Hypersensitivity is an altered immunologic response to an antigen that results in disease or dam-age to the individual. It is not a reduced immune response or a response to an infectious agent. Antigenic desensitization is performed to decrease hypersensitivity. |