What health problems are associated with diabetes insipidus?

What health problems are associated with diabetes insipidus?

Most people urinate one to two liters of urine a day, but a person with diabetes insipidus might urinate three liters or more. Patients often wake up in the middle of the night to urinate. Because they are losing a lot of water in the urine, these patients are at risk for dehydration.

Patients who have diabetes insipidus have increased thirst and tend to drink a great deal of water. If the patient has no access to drinking water, he or she cannot make up for the loss of water, and the chemicals in the body get “concentrated.” The person may have increased levels of sodium in the blood (hypernatremia), which cause confusion and other changes in mental status.