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A mother brings in her unimmunized, otherwise healthy, 7-year-old daughter to the pediatric office where you are the charge nurse. The child has nearly 100 lesions all over her body, mainly localized to her trunk. Most of the lesions are vesicular, but a few have scabbed over. According to the mother, her daughter broke out in this rash about 5 days ago. She never experienced a fever, but the rash seems to be incurably itchy. As the mother is telling you this, you see her daughter itch open one of the vesicles, revealing a clear fluid.
-The mother demands antibiotics to treat her daughter's infection.How will you best respond to her request?
A) Advocate that the physician should write a prescription for oral amoxicillin,because the mother always knows best.
B) Inform the mother that she is not a trained professional and should not be advising medical staff on proper treatments.
C) Tell the mother she can purchase a triple-antibiotic ointment over the counter to apply to all lesions three times daily.
D) Inform the mother that chickenpox is caused by a virus and does not respond to antibiotics,but is self-limiting and will heal on its own.
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