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Polydipsia with water intoxication in treatment‐resistant schizophrenia
Author(s) -
Adetoki Adeniyi,
Evans Robert,
Cassidy Geraldine
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
progress in neurology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.19
H-Index - 12
eISSN - 1931-227X
pISSN - 1367-7543
DOI - 10.1002/pnp.281
Subject(s) - polydipsia , water intoxication , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , paranoid schizophrenia , psychiatry , medicine , psychology , psychosis , hyponatremia , endocrinology , diabetes mellitus
Primary polydipsia affects a significant proportion of patients with chronic schizophrenia and is associated with the use of conventional antipsychotics and acute relapse. This case report describes a man with treatment‐resistant paranoid schizophrenia who developed hyponatraemia as a consequence of drinking copious volumes of water following his admission to hospital due to an acute relapse of schizophrenia.