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A Patient with Hyperthyroidism Has Been Reading About PTU on the Internet.The

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A patient with hyperthyroidism has been reading about PTU on the internet.The patient asks the nurse, "How do anti-hormones work to help my condition?" Which is the nurse's best response?


A) "Your body has been affected by too much thyroid hormone.PTU is a drug that can block your body's response to thyroid hormone."
B) "PTU regenerates your thyroid gland and causes normal tissue to regrow, so the effects of too much thyroid will go away."
C) "Anti-hormones oppose the action of estrogen, which allows thyroid to regain its effectiveness."
D) "PTU replaces your abnormal thyroid hormone with normal thyroid hormone."

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