Question

When obtaining the initial health history from a 10-year-old child with abdominal pain and suspected appendicitis, which question would be most helpful in eliciting data to help support the diagnosis? "is the pain continuous, or does it let up?" "where did the pain start?" "how often do you have a bowel movement?" "what did you do for the pain?"?

Answer 1

Appendicitis is always significant with rebound tenderness location yes but if there's anything that makes it worse or less