Water Intoxication in Relation to Acute Psychotic Disorder

Abstract

Psychogenic polydipsia may present a problem in relation to the diagnosis of diabetes insipidus (Carter and Robbins, 1947; Barlow and de Wardener, 1959). More rarely (Barahal, 1938; Bewley, 1964) polydipsia results from an -acute psychiatric disturbance and is of such magnitude as to cause water intoxication (Rowntree, 1926). We here report a case in which coma