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What are recommended treatments for diabetes mellitus and diabetes insipidus


What are recommended treatments for diabetes mellitus and diabetes insipidus?

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Diabetes mellitus - caused either by lack of insulin, or the body's insensitivity to insulin. Treatment is dietary control, insulin injections and/or, in some cases, oral medications. Diabetes insipidus - caused by lack of ADH (central DI) or by kidney insensitivity to ADH (nephrogenic DI). Treatment of central DI is regulation of water intake, and DDAVP (synthetic ADH); in the nephrogenic kind, salt restriction and a thiazide diuretic (medicine that makes you pee) are used






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