EXERCISES, LESSON 4
INSTRUCTIONS: The following exercises are to be answered by marking the lettered
response that best answers the question or best completes the incomplete statement or
by writing the answer in the space provided.
After you have completed all the exercises, turn to "Solutions to Exercises" at the
end of the lesson and check your answers.
1.
The term cathartic is best defined as an agent that:
a. Causes an evacuation of the bowel.
b. Produces emesis.
c.
Causes the bowels to move on a daily basis.
d. Softens the stool in order to produce a bowel movement with less effort.
2.
Which of the following can help people maintain normal bowel habits?
a. Establishing a time of day when they can relax and have a bowel movement.
b. Eating foods high in protein and carbohydrates.
c.
Eating food which is soft and not bulky.
d. All of the above.
3.
What precaution(s) is/are associated with the use of cathartics?
a. Do not take a cathartic if there is tenderness in the stomach or lower
abdominal area.
b. Do not take a cathartic if a skin rash developed immediately after the last dose
of the drug was taken.
c.
Do not take a cathartic just for the sake of taking one.
d. All of the above.
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