During the admission process,the patient states that he stopped taking daily aspirin because of nausea.The nurse documents the nausea as which of the following?
A)Noncompliance
B)Toxic effects of the medication
C)Side effects of the medication
D)Allergic reaction to the medication

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Side effects are predictable and often unavoidable secondary effects produced at a usual therapeutic drug dose.For example,some antihypertensive medications cause impotence in male patients.Noncompliance or nonadherence refers to the patient behavior of not following the prescribed medication regimen.In this case,noncompliance would be the result of the patient's nausea,but the nausea itself would not be considered noncompliance.Toxic effects develop after prolonged intake of a medication,when a medication accumulates in the blood because of impaired metabolism or excretion,or when too high a dose is given.Allergic reactions are unpredictable responses to a medication.Exposure to an initial dose of a medication causes a patient to become sensitized immunologically.The medication acts as an antigen,and this causes antibodies to be produced.Nausea is not an antigen-antibody response.

During the Admission Process,the Patient States That He Stopped Taking