Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction Institutional campaigns, and some health care professionals, encourage the elderly to drink large quantities of fluids, regardless of their level of thirst. Furthermore, SIADH-inducing medications can often cause dryness of mouth. Thus, patients when diagnosed with SIADH can have a high fluid intake (FI), drinking in the absence of thirst. However, fluid restriction, considered the first step in therapy of mild/moderate SIADH hyponatremia, h...