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Diabetes Insipidus - Types of Diabetes Insipidus
Monday, 18 June 2007
The kidneys' ability to respond to ADH can be impaired by drugs (like lithium, for example) and by chronic disorders including polycystic kidney disease, sickle cell disease, kidney failure, partial blockage of the ureters, and inherited genetic disorders. Sometimes the cause of nephrogenic DI is never discovered.

 

Desmopressin will not work for this form of DI. Instead, you may be given a drug called hydrochlorothiazide (also called HCTZ) or indomethacin. HCTZ is sometimes combined with amiloride. Again, you should drink fluids only when you are thirsty and not at other times.

source: http://kidney.niddk.nih.gov/kudiseases/pubs/insipidus/index.htm
 
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