Primary polydipsia symptoms, such as delusions involving fluid intake or other unusual behaviours. Primary polydipsia may have physiological causes, such as autoimmune hepatitis. Since primary polydipsia is a diagnosis of exclusion, the diagnosis may be made for patients who have medically unexplained excessive thirst, and this is sometimes incorrectly referred to as "psychogenic" rather than "primary" polydipsia. As a diagnosis of exclusion, a diagnosis of primary polydipsia may be the result of elimination of the possibility of diseases causing similar signs and symptoms, such as diabetes insipidus. Diagnosis may be complicated by the fact that chronic and extreme compulsive drinking may impair
Southwest Medical University regions and municipalities, and many come from other countries. The staff number at around 2,560, with 520 of them being onsite professors or associate professors whose focus includes Western medicine, traditional Chinese medicine, and a hybrid combination of the two. Facility wise, the college has five non-subordinating hospitals and 39 teaching hospitals with a total of 15,500 patient beds. Southwest Medical University Southwest Medical University (, formerly Luzhou Medical College (), is a medical university in Luzhou, Sichuan, China. The school was first established in 1951 as Southern Sichuan Doctors' School (). In 1958, the school was renamed as Luzhou