Patient's question:
Doctor, when I was searching for some medical knowledge today, I suddenly came across the term "diabetes insipidus," but there was only a simple explanation without much speculation. What I want to ask is, what are the symptoms of diabetes insipidus?Doctor's answer:
Diabetes insipidus refers to a severe or partial deficiency of antidiuretic hormone, or the kidneys' insensitivity to antidiuretic hormone, which leads to impaired reabsorption function of the renal tubules, resulting in symptoms characterized by polyuria, polydipsia, hypotonic urine, and low specific gravity urine. The clinical symptoms are related to the degree of antidiuretic hormone deficiency. Severe cases may produce 4 to 10 liters of urine in 24 hours, while milder cases produce 2.5 to 5 liters of urine over the same period.