A teenager with celiac disease continues to eat food she knows will make her ill several hours after ingestion.In view of appropriate tertiary level interventions,what would be the nursing intervention?

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Tertiary interventions help the patient adapt to life with an illness.By adjusting the diet to meet dietary guidelines and also addressing adolescent emotional needs,the nurse will help the teenager to follow an appropriate diet without health complications and see herself as a "typical and normal" teenager.Teaching about Canada's Food Guide to Healthy Eating will not address the real issue,which is that the teen is still eating what she knows will make her ill.Administering antidiarrheal medications may help but is not a tertiary intervention.Admonishing the teenager and parents is not a tertiary intervention,and because this approach is nontherapeutic,it may cause communication problems.

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