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Universal Symptoms of Diabetes Insipidus
 | Increased thirst
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 | Increased drinking
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 | Increased urination
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Variable Symptoms of Diabetes
Insipidus
 | Bed-wetting
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 | Getting up at night to urinate
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The Universal and Variable Symptoms
of Diabetes Insipidus occur:
 | in the absence of high blood and/or urine
sugar
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 | are sometimes associated with various other
symptoms due to concomitant damage to other hormones or organs.
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Potential Results of Increased
Sodium Levels:
 | An unmanaged sodium
level may result in dehydration. A sodium level greater than 140-150
mEq/1 indicates dehydration. If it gets no
higher than 155 mEq/1, the dehydration is relatively mild and is unlikely to cause a
severe problem but it could and probably would produce slight brain damage that could
gradually increase over long periods of time. Therefore, an effort should be made to
keep the sodium below 150 mEq/1.
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Last Updated December 2006
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