The nurse assessing a baby finds that the baby has creamy-white plaques on the buccal mucosa and lateral borders of the tongue. What method will the nurse normally use to see if this is thrush or residual milk curds?
A) Send a sample of the plaques to the lab for a thrush test.
B) Scrape a sample of the plaques, and look at it under the microscope.
C) Give the baby something acidic to drink such as sweetened lemonade.
D) Do a simple scraping; milk curds will scrape away and thrush will not.
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