A Nurse Is Assessing a Teenage Patient with Acne Vulgaris

A nurse is assessing a teenage patient with acne vulgaris. The patients mother states, I keep telling him that this is what happens when you eat as much chocolate as he does. What aspect of the pathophysiology of acne should inform the nurses response?

A) A sudden change in patients diet may exacerbate, rather than alleviate, the patients symptoms.
B) Chocolate is not among the foods that are known to cause acne.
C) Elimination of chocolate from the patients diet will likely lead to resolution within several months.
D) Diet is thought to play a minimal role in the development of acne.