An 8-Year-Old Girl Is Brought by Her Mother to the Outpatient

An 8-year-old girl is brought by her mother to the outpatient clinic with complaints of abdominal cramping and greenish diarrhea. A diagnosis of shigellosis is made after a stool culture. Identify the discharge instruction by the nurse that best explains the requirement for enteric precautions at home.

A) Enteric precautions only have to be maintained until the diarrhea stops.
B) The child must remain on enteric precautions until she has three stool cultures negative for Shigella.
C) After the child has been taking the antibiotics for 48 hours, you can stop the enteric precautions.
D) The child must remain on enteric precautions for 30 days or until her viral titer is normal.