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Do polyuria and polydipsia automatically make someone diabetic?

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Dr. Simon Kimm answered

Specializes in Urology

No. : Polyuria is the production of large amounts of dilute urine & polydipsia is elevated fluid intake; usually due to fluid losses from polyuria. These are just symptoms of a disorder & several different disease processes can cause this, with diabetes a common & important one. Diabetes is diagnosed by testing blood sugar levels. Other more rare causes are diabetes insipidus & psychogenic polydipsia.

Answered 12/9/2013

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