A patient is admitted with a long history of mental illness.Her husband states she has been drinking up to 10 gallons of water each day for the past 2 days and refuses to eat.The patient is severely dehydrated and soaked with urine.The nurse suspects
A) central diabetes insipidus (DI).
B) nephrogenic DI.
C) psychogenic (dipsogenic) DI.
D) iatrogenic DI.

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Psychogenic diabetes insipidus (DI)is a rare form of the disease that occurs with compulsive drinking of more than 5 L of water a day.Long-standing psychogenic DI closely mimics nephrogenic DI because the kidney tubules become less responsive to antidiuretic hormone as a result of prolonged conditioning to hypotonic urine.

A Patient Is Admitted with a Long History of Mental