title: [Psychogenic polydipsia leading to water intoxication].
abstract: Psychogenic polydipsia and its frequent complication, water intoxication, are well-known to psychologists. There are biochemical and psychiatric theories of psychogenic polydipsia which often correlate with each other. A 48-year-old man with chronic paranoid schizophrenia developed symptoms of psychogenic polydipsia. This provoked disturbances in electrolyte balance, resulting in a rapid decrease in serum sodium concentration and eventual death. There is a paucity of information and little awareness of this problem in the professional literature.
authors.affiliation: Psychiatry Dept., Eitanim Mental Health Center.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Umansky
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sella
mesh_terms: D004327:Drinking Behavior; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012563:Schizophrenia, Paranoid / Q000150:complications*; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D012964:Sodium / Q000097:blood; D014869:Water Intoxication / Q000150:complications*; D014883:Water-Electrolyte Imbalance / Q000209:etiology
chemical_list: D012964:Sodium