{"id":218670,"date":"2025-05-24T07:38:32","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T07:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/?p=218670"},"modified":"2025-05-24T07:38:34","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T07:38:34","slug":"a-client-with-a-body-temperature-of-99-8f-is-admitted-to-the-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/24\/a-client-with-a-body-temperature-of-99-8f-is-admitted-to-the-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"A client with a body temperature of 99.8\u00b0F is admitted to the hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A client with a body temperature of 99.8\u00b0F is admitted to the hospital. The client complaints of fatigue, blood-tinged hemoptysis and night sweats. The client’s symptoms are consistent with a diagnosis of:
A. Tuberculosis
B. Reaction to antiviral medication
C. Pneumonia
D. Superinfection due to low CD4 count<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Correct Answer and Explanation is:<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Correct Answer: A. Tuberculosis<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Explanation:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The client presents with a constellation of symptoms \u2014 low-grade fever (99.8\u00b0F), fatigue, blood-tinged hemoptysis (coughing up blood), and night sweats<\/strong> \u2014 all of which are classic signs of pulmonary tuberculosis (TB)<\/strong>, a contagious bacterial infection primarily affecting the lungs. These symptoms, though sometimes nonspecific, are strongly suggestive of TB when they occur together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Key Symptom Analysis:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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  • Fever and Night Sweats:<\/strong> TB commonly causes a persistent low-grade fever, often accompanied by night sweats due to the body’s immune response to the Mycobacterium tuberculosis<\/em> bacteria.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Fatigue:<\/strong> Chronic fatigue is typical in TB due to the body’s ongoing inflammatory and immune response to infection.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Hemoptysis:<\/strong> One of the hallmark symptoms of active pulmonary TB is coughing up blood, which occurs as the bacteria damage lung tissue.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    Why the other options are incorrect:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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    • B. Reaction to antiviral medication:<\/strong> While antiviral reactions may cause fatigue or rash, they are unlikely to cause night sweats or hemoptysis. These are not typical symptoms of drug reactions.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • C. Pneumonia:<\/strong> While pneumonia can cause fever and cough, hemoptysis is less common, and night sweats are not a hallmark symptom. Pneumonia usually presents with an acute onset of symptoms such as productive cough, chest pain, and high fever.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • D. Superinfection due to low CD4 count:<\/strong> This typically suggests an opportunistic infection in someone with advanced HIV\/AIDS. While TB can occur in immunocompromised patients, the clue here is not the CD4 count but the symptom pattern pointing directly to TB.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

      Conclusion:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

      The symptom pattern described \u2014 low-grade fever, fatigue, night sweats, and blood-tinged sputum \u2014 is most consistent with tuberculosis<\/strong>, a potentially serious and contagious condition that requires prompt diagnosis and isolation to prevent transmission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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      A client with a body temperature of 99.8\u00b0F is admitted to the hospital. The client complaints of fatigue, blood-tinged hemoptysis and night sweats. The client’s symptoms are consistent with a diagnosis of:A. TuberculosisB. Reaction to antiviral medicationC. PneumoniaD. Superinfection due to low CD4 count The Correct Answer and Explanation is: Correct Answer: A. Tuberculosis Explanation: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exams-certification"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}