A 67-year-old client at the free clinic where you practice nursing has a history of seizures and presents with severe fatigue, frequent headaches, and a sore and beefy red tongue. What could be causing her current condition?

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Veronica Jefferson

26 July, 03:05

A 67-year-old client at the free clinic where you practice nursing has a history of seizures and presents with severe fatigue, frequent headaches, and a sore and beefy red tongue. What could be causing her current condition?

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Garrett Dorsey · Answer 1

Answer: alcoholism and intestinal disorder.

Explanation:

Alcoholism is a situation of taking too much of alcohol. And the effects of exposing the body to excess alcohol are numerous, ranging from liver failure to diabetes, blood pressure, heart attack, irregular heart beat and stroke.

The intestinal disorder include different problems associated with the intestine. These include, constipation, cancer, irritable bowel syndrome among others.

Some symptoms of intestinal disorder are bleeding, pain in the belly, diarrhea and bloating.

In this case, the current condition of the 67 - year - old client is associated to the two options mentioned because of the signs and symptoms she was giving or showing.