Bloody diarrhoea — GPhC CRA MCQ
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Correct answer: D — Refer for urgent medical assessment and encourage oral rehydration while awaiting advice
Bloody diarrhoea with fever after animal exposure suggests invasive bacterial infection or other serious enteric illness. Antimotility medicines are inappropriate because they may worsen outcomes in dysentery-like illness. Reduced urine output raises concern about dehydration. Oral rehydration and urgent assessment are the safest advice.
Reference: NICE CKS Diarrhoea and vomiting; BNF