A client with hyperthyroidism has been reading about PTU on the internet.The client asks the nurse,"How do antihormones 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) "Antihormones oppose the action of estrogen,which allows thyroid to regain its effectiveness."
C) "PTU regenerates your thyroid gland and causes normal tissue to regrow,so the effects of too much thyroid will disappear."
D) "PTU replaces your abnormal thyroid hormone with normal thyroid hormone."
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