2007-02-16 07:43:57 · 9 answers · asked by miguelswife.* 2 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Diabetes
Diabetes refers to excessive urination. In general, when people say diabetes, they usually mean diabetes mellitus, which is a dysfunction of insulin secretion or reception, which causes high blood glucose, leading to excessive urination of glucose.
Diabetes insipidus causes a person to urinate excessively, but for a different reason -- it is because the normal mechanism that allows the kidneys to reabsorb water is impaired. There are 2 different types: (1) NEUROgenic diabetes insipidus is caused by deficient production/release of antidiuretic hormone (ADH), which is the hormone that normally stimulates the kidney to retain water, and (2) NEPHROgenic diabetes insipidus, which is caused by insensitivity of ADH-receptors in the kidney to the hormone, which causes the same effect. They are treated differently though, as neurogenic DI can be treated with desmopressin (an analog of ADH), while nephrogenic DI is treated with thiazide diuretics.
So, if you mean literally, then yes diabetes insipidus is diabetes, because they both cause excessive urination, but no it is not diabetes mellitus, because they are caused by 2 very different and distinct mechanisms.
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2016-05-03 07:44:47 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Diabetes insipidus doesn't mean that you have the regular sugar diabetes. Insipdus basically means extreme thirst, but is not quite as dangerous as the regular sugar one.
2016-03-14 07:33:58 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Diabetes insipidus is caused by the inability of the kidneys to conserve water, which leads to frequent urination and pronounced thirst.
more info at:http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000377.htm
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