A member asked:

My husbend was thrown with a large brik on his head he had sirgery for scull frukture and is now diagnosed with deabetes can it be from the injery?

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See below: If you mean diabetes insipidus, then yes. The usual diabetes that we all talk about is diabetes mellitus - that is different - that has to do with sugar & insulin. Diabetes insipidus deals with water balance in the body. Anti-diuretic hormone is made in the posterior pituitary gland in the brain & helps manage this water balance. Depending on the type & location of brain injury, di can develop.

Answered 11/5/2012

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