The Nurse Is Assessing the Skin Moisture of a Child

The nurse is assessing the skin moisture of a child with laryngotracheobronchitis. Which of the following explains why the nurse assessed the skin moisture in this case?

A) to get some measure of how dehydrated the child might become
B) increased skin moisture will signal danger of ketoacidosis
C) skin moisture is a relatively good measure of the degree of infection
D) diaphoresis is associated with increased respiratory effort