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Diabetes insipidus (DI) is characterized by excretion of large amounts of dilute urine, which disrupts your body's water regulation. To make up for lost water, you may feel the need to drink large amounts of water. You are likely to urinate frequently, even at night, which can disrupt sleep or, on occasion, cause bedwetting. Because of the excretion of abnormally large volumes of dilute urine, you may quickly become dehydrated if you do not drink enough water. Children with DI may be irritable ... 
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One of a pair of organs in the abdomen. Kidneys remove waste from the blood (as urine), produce erythropoietin (a substance that stimulates red blood cell production), and play a role in blood pressure regulation.
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Diabetes Insipidus as related to Kidney
- Diabetes Insipidus
Defines diabetes insipidus and reviews the mechanics of normal fluid regulation. Discusses the different forms of the condition and the tests used to diagnose it.
- Diabetes insipidus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Diabetes insipidus ( DI ) is a condition characterized by excretion of large amounts of severely diluted urine , which cannot be reduced when fluid intake is reduced. It denotes inability of the kidney to concentrate urine. DI is caused by a deficiency of antidiuretic hormone (ADH), also known as vasopressin, due to the destruction of the back or "posterior" part of the pituitary gland where vasopressin is normally released from, or by an insensitivity of the kidneys to that hormone.
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- MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Diabetes insipidus
Diabetes insipidus is a condition in which the kidneys are unable to conserve water. ... and demeclocycline) High levels of calcium in the body ( hypercalcemia ) Kidney disease ...
- Diabetes Insipidus
Nephrogenic diabetes insipidus (NDI) is a rare kidney disorder that may be inherited or acquired. NDI is not related to the more common diabetes mellitus (sugar diabetes), in which ...
- What Is Diabetes Insipidus?
... by a lack of vasopressin, a hormone that normally acts upon the kidney to ... Does pituitary diabetes insipidus cause any problems other than increased ...
- Nephrogenic Diabetes Insipidus: Tubular and Cystic Kidney Disorders ...
In nephrogenic diabetes insipidus, the kidneys produce a large volume of dilute urine because they fail to respond to antidiuretic hormone and are unable to concentrate urine.
- MedlinePlus: Diabetes Insipidus
The primary NIH organization for research on Diabetes Insipidus is the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
- Diabetes insipidus definition - Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 Diabetes ...
Nephrogenic diabetes insipidus is lack of response of the kidney to the fluid-conserving action of ADH. Nephrogenic diabetes insipidus can be due to diseases of the kidney (such as ...
- KIDNEY DISORDERS - Diabetes Insipidus
Health encyclopaedia: A to Z of kidney & urological disorders... ... Diabetes Insipidus. Diabetes insipidus (DI) causes frequent urination. The large volume of urine is diluted ...
- Diabetes Insipidus
nephrogenic diabetes insipidus - lack of kidney response to normal levels of ADH: can be caused by drugs or chronic disorders, such as kidney failure, sickle cell ...
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