A Woman with Unknown HIV Status Is Found to Have

question 6

Multiple Choice

A woman with unknown HIV status is found to have a white film on her tongue, which when scraped away, reveals smooth, red patches on the tongue and buccal mucos a. She asks what she should do to treat this white film. The best response is:

• A) antiretroviral drugs.
• B) hydrogen peroxide mouthrinse.
• C) nystatin swish and swallow.
• D) mechanical scraping.
• E) nothing is likely to help.

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Definitions:

Apprehensive

Feeling anxious or fearful that something bad or unpleasant will happen.

Psychoanalytic Perspective

A theory of personality and therapeutic technique that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts.

Phobias

Strong, unreasonable anxieties about particular things, actions, or scenarios that result in evasive actions.

Repressed Impulses

Desires or thoughts that are pushed out of the conscious mind into the unconscious due to being deemed unacceptable.