Misdiagnosis of Hidden Causes of Dehydration

Underlying conditions list:

The list of possible underlying conditions mentioned in various sources for Dehydration includes:

• Diarrhea
• Vomiting
• Fever
• Excessive bleeding (type of Hemorrhage)
• Excessive sweating
• Excessive sun exposure
• Inadequate fluid intake
• Conditions causing excessive urination such as:
  • Diabetes
  • Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA)
  • HHNS
  • Diabetes insipidus
  • Hyperparathyroidism
  • Hypercalcemia
  • Kidney failure (type of Kidney disease)
  • Chronic kidney failure (type of Kidney stones)
  • See also causes of excessive urination and causes of thirst
• Fungal meningitis - dehydration
• Colitis - dehydration
• Vibrio vulnificus infection - Dehydration
• Vibrio mimicus food poisoning - dehydration
• Proximal tubulopathy - diabetes mellitus - cerebellar ataxia - dehydration
• Pancreatitis - dehydration
• Multiple endocrine neoplasia - Dehydration
• Intermediate cystinosis - dehydration
• Hyperthermia - dehydration
• Gastroenteritis - dehydration
• Diabetes insipidus, nephrogenic type 2 - dehydration
• Congenital sucrose-isomaltose malabsorption - dehydration
• Chromosome 9, trisomy 9p - enophthalmos
• Astrovirus - Dehydration
• Adrenal gland hypofunction - dehydration
• Acidemia, methylmalonic - dehydration
• Pyrexia
• Toxic epidermal necrolysis - dehydration
• Mumps - dehydration
• Meningitis - dehydration
• Hand-Foot-Mouth Syndrome - dehydration
• Gingivostomatitis - dehydration
• Exudative retinopathy familial, autosomal dominant - enophthalmos
• Pseudohypoaldosteronism type 1 - dehydration
• Cystinosis - dehydration
• Chromosome 10p deletion syndrome - enophthalmos
• Bacillus cereus type I food poisoning - dehydration
• Argentinean hemorrhagic fever - dehydration
• Adrenal hypoplasia congenital, X-linked - dehydration
• Ackee Fruit Food poisoning - dehydration
• Diabetes mellitus type 2
• Neglect
• Vibrio infection - Vibrio holisae - dehydration
• Exudative retinopathy familial, autosomal recessive - enophthalmos
• Enteroinvasive E. Coli infection - dehydration
• Cyclic vomiting syndrome - Dehydration
• Vibrio - Dehydration
• Type 2 diabetes - dehydration
• Nanophthalmos 2 - enophthalmos
• Methylmalonicaciduria, vitamin B12 unresponsive, mut 0 - dehydration
• Methylmalonic acidemia, vitamin B12 responsive - dehydration
• Ichthyosis congenita, Harlequin fetus type - dehydration
• Hereditary primary Fanconi disease - dehydration
• Glucose-galactose malabsorption - dehydration
• Gastrointestinal bleeding - Dehydration
• Fothergill disease - dehydration
• Dehydration - Infant dehydration symptoms
• Congenital adrenal hyperplasia - sodium-wasting form - dehydration
• Codeine withdrawal - dehydration
• Amebic dysentery - dehydration
• Acute Pancreatitis - dehydration
• Viral gastroenteritis - dehydration
• Plant poisoning - Castor bean (Ricinus communis) - dehydration
• Herpes stomatitis - dehydration
• Exudative retinopathy familial, X-linked, recessive - enophthalmos
• Croup - dehydration
• Wolfram's disease - Dehydration
• Waterhouse-Friederichsen syndrome - dehydration
• Toxic mushrooms - cyclopeptides - dehydration
• Pseudohypoaldosteronism type 1, autosomal dominant - dehydration
• Polycystic kidney disease type 1 - dehydration
• Nanophthalmos 3 - enophthalmos
• Krause syndrome - sunken eyes
• Collagenous Colitis - dehydration
• Cockayne syndrome type 1 - sunken eyes
• Addison's Disease - dehydration
• Enterotoxigenic E. Coli infection - dehydration
• Enteropathogenic E. Coli infection - dehydration
• Vasopressin-resistant diabetes insipidus - Dehydration
• Toni-Fanconi syndrome type 1 - dehydration
• RHYNS syndrome - enophthalmos
• Pseudohypoaldosteronism type 1, autosomal recessive - dehydration
• Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 - Dehydration
• Diabetes mellitus, transient neonatal - dehydration
• Cystic fibrosis - gastritis - megaloblastic anemia - dehydration
• Cryptosporiosis - dehydration
• Cockayne syndrome type 2 - sunken eyes
• Chemical poisoning - Borates - dehydration
• Adrenal Cortex Diseases - dehydration
• Accidental Eye Injury - Enophthalmos
• Heat stroke
• Low fluid intake, chronic
• Anorexia nervosa - Dehydration
• Staphylococcus aureus food poisoning - Dehydration
• Exudative vitreoretinopathy 3 - enophthalmos
• Epidermolysis bullosa, junctional - dehydration
• Enteroaggregative E. Coli infection - dehydration
• Ecstasy abuse - dehydration
• E-coli food poisoning - Dehydration
• Colonic volvulus - dehydration
• Campylobacter food poisoning - Dehydration
• Periodic hyperlysinemia - dehydration
• Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2 - Dehydration
• Duodenal atresia - dehydration
• Diabetes insipidus, nephrogenic, dominant type - dehydration
• Bébé Collodion syndrome - dehydration
• Roseola infantum - dehydration
• Exudative vitreoretinopathy 4 - enophthalmos
• Carcinoid syndrome - dehydration
• Whole-body acute irradiation - gastrointestinal syndrome - dehydration
• Viral digestive infections - Dehydration
• Secondary Bone Cancer - dehydration
• Sarcosporidiosis - dehydration
• Rotavirus - dehydration
• Nephrogenic diabetes insipidus - dehydration
• Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 3 - Dehydration
• Lipoid congenital adrenal hyperplasia - dehydration
• Janbon syndrome - dehydration
• Intractable diarrhea with enterocytes assembly abnormalities, congenital, familial - dehydration
• Hyperemesis Gravidarum - dehydration
• Harlequin type ichthyosis - dehydration
• Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia Coli Infection - Dehydration
• Diabetes Insipidus, Neurogenic - dehydration
• Diabetes insipidus, nephrogenic, recessive type - dehydration
• Congenital chloride diarrhea - dehydration
• Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) - dehydration
• Chicken soup poisoning - dehydration
• 18-Hydroxylase deficiency - dehydration
• Salmonella typhimurium infection - dehydration
• Heat exhaustion - dehydration
• Gastritis - dehydration
• Exfoliative dermatitis - dehydration
• Autoimmune enteropathy - dehydration
• Whistling face syndrome, recessive form - sunken eyes
• Parathyroid Cancer - Dehydration
• Microphthalmis, isolated, with cataract 4 - sunken eyes
• HIV/AIDS - dehydration
• Epidermolysis bullosa, lethal acantholytic - dehydration
• Disulfiram toxicity - dehydration
• Defect in synthesis of adenosylcobalamin - dehydration
• Bacillus cereus type II food poisoning - dehydration
• Hyperglycaemia
• Small bowel bacterial overgrowth syndrome - dehydration
• Mesenteric artery syndrome - dehydration
• Heat cramps - dehydration
• Enterohemorrhagic E. Coli infection - dehydration
• Deal-Barratt-Dillon syndrome - dehydration
• Clostridium perfringens food poisoning - Dehydration
• Pyloric stenosis - dehydration
• Microvillus Inclusion Disease - dehydration
• Mercury poisoning - dehydration
• Intestinal epithelial dysplasia - dehydration
• Hypoadrenalism - dehydration
• HMG-CoA lyase deficiency - dehydration
• Helminthiasis - dehydration
• Fanconi-ichthyosis-dysmorphism - dehydration
• Cholera - dehydration
• Bolivian hemorrhagic fever - dehydration
• Beta ketothiolase deficiency - dehydration
• Green gill mushroom poisoning - dehydration
• Congenital microvillous atrophy - dehydration
• Ulcerative colitis - dehydration
• Short Bowel Syndrome - dehydration
• Progeria short stature pigmented nevi - sunken eyes
• Panhypopituitarism - dehydration
• Intractable diarrhea of infancy (generic term) - dehydration
• Hypoadrenocorticism - hypoparathyroidism - moniliasis - dehydration
• Hyperglycemia - dehydration
• Food poisoning - dehydration
• Fanconi syndrome - dehydration
• Colchicine toxicity - dehydration
• Cocaine overdose - dehydration
• Bell mania - dehydration
• Azalea poisoning - dehydration
• Anemic - hematuria syndrome - dehydration
• Adrenal hyperplasia, congenital type 3 - dehydration
• Addisonian crisis - dehydration
• Malnutrition
• Exudative retinopathy, familial - enophthalmos
• Brainerd diarrhea - dehydration
• Whistling face syndrome - Sunken eyes
• Pseudomembranous Colitis - dehydration
• Nephropathic cystinosis - dehydration
• Galactosemia I - dehydration
• Excessive dieting - dehydration
• Duodenal atresia tetralogy of Fallot - dehydration
• Cutaneous photosensitivity colitis, lethal - dehydration
• Colibacillosis - dehydration
• Cockayne syndrome - sunken eyes
• Chromosome 9p tetrasomy syndrome - enophthalmos
• Adrenal hyperplasia - dehydration
• Intravenous infusion
• Hyperosmolar non-ketotic diabetic coma
• Poor hydration during illness

Other underlying conditions related to Dehydration:

• Atrial fibrillation
• Chloride levels raised (plasma or serum)
• Constipation
• Dry eyes
• Dry skin
• Enophthalmos
• Hypotension
• Hypovolaemic shock
• Osmolality raised (plasma)
• Parotitis, acute
• Polycythaemia
• Relative erythrocytosis
• Renal failure, acute
• Urea levels raised (plasma or serum)
• Xerostomia

Source: Diseases Database

Dehydration as a complication:

Other conditions that might have Dehydration as a complication might be potential underlying conditions. The list of conditions listing Dehydration as a complication includes:

• Acute Pancreatitis
• Amebic dysentery
• Autoimmune enteropathy
• Autoimmune enteropathy, type 1
• Brainerd diarrhea
• Campylobacter food poisoning
• Carcinoid syndrome
• Cholera
• Clostridium perfringens food poisoning
• Colitis
• Colonic volvulus
• Congenital microvillous atrophy
• Croup
• Cyclic vomiting syndrome
• Deal-Barratt-Dillon syndrome
• Diabetes mellitus, congenital insulin-dependent, with fatal secretory diarrhea
• Diarrhea
• Diarrhea - polyendocrinopathy - infections, X-linked
• Diarrhea 2, with Microvillous Atrophy
• Diarrhea, polyendocrinopathy, fatal infection syndrome, X-linked
• E-coli food poisoning
• Ecstasy abuse
• Enteroaggregative E. Coli infection
• Enterohemorrhagic E. Coli infection
• Enteroinvasive E. Coli infection
• Enteropathogenic E. Coli infection
• Enteropathy, autoimmune, with hemolytic anemia and polyendocrinopathy
• Enterotoxigenic E. Coli infection
• Epidermolysis bullosa, junctional
• Erythrodermic eczema
• Exfoliative dermatitis
• Fungal meningitis
• Gastritis
• Gastroenteritis
• Gastrointestinal bleeding
• Gingivostomatitis
• Green gill mushroom poisoning
• Hand-Foot-Mouth Syndrome
• Heat cramps
• Heat exhaustion
• Herpes stomatitis
• Hyperemesis Gravidarum
• Immune dysregulation - polyendocrinopathy - enteropathy, X linked
• IPEX syndrome
• Meningitis
• Mesenteric artery syndrome
• Mumps
• Non infectious chronic diarrhea
• Plant poisoning - daffodil (Narcissus pseudonarcissus)
• Plant poisoning - holly (Ilex sp.)
• Plant poisoning - mistletoe (Phoradendron serotinum)
• Plant poisoning - pokeweed (Phytolacca Americana)
• Polyendocrinopathy, immune dysfunction, and diarrhea, X-linked
• Psoriasis
• Renal tubulopathy - diabetes mellitus - cerebellar ataxia
• Roseola infantum
• Rotavirus
• Salmonella typhimurium infection
• Short Bowel Syndrome
• Small bowel bacterial overgrowth syndrome
• Staphylococcus aureus food poisoning
• Toxic epidermal necrolysis
• Ulcerative colitis
• Vibrio infection - Vibrio alginolyticus
• Vibrio infection - Vibrio damsela
• Vibrio infection - Vibrio fluvialis
• Vibrio infection - Vibrio furnissii
• Vibrio infection - Vibrio holisae
• Vibrio infection - Vibrio metschnikovii
• Vibrio infection - Vibrio mimicus
• Vibrio infection - Vibrio parahaemolyticus
• Viral gastroenteritis

Dehydration Causes: Book Excerpts

• Differential Diagnosis - Hypernatremia
• Differential Diagnosis - Hypernatremia
• Dehydration - pathophysiology - Dehydration

Dehydration as a symptom:

Conditions listing Dehydration as a symptom may also be potential underlying conditions.

For a more detailed analysis of Dehydration as a symptom, including causes, drug side effect causes, and drug interaction causes, please see our Symptom Center information for Dehydration.

• 18-Hydroxylase deficiency
• Acidemia, methylmalonic
• Ackee Fruit Food poisoning
• Acute Pancreatitis
• Addison's Disease
• Addisonian crisis
• Adrenal Cortex Diseases
• Adrenal gland hypofunction
• Adrenal hyperplasia
• Adrenal hyperplasia, congenital type 3
• Adrenal hypoplasia congenital, X-linked
• Amebic dysentery
• Anemic - hematuria syndrome
• Anorexia Nervosa
• Argentinean hemorrhagic fever
• Astrovirus
• Azalea poisoning
• Bacillus cereus type I food poisoning
• Bacillus cereus type II food poisoning
• Bell mania
• Beta ketothiolase deficiency
• Bolivian hemorrhagic fever
• Bébé Collodion syndrome
• Chemical poisoning - Borates
• Chicken soup poisoning
• Cholera
• Cocaine overdose
• Codeine withdrawal
• Colchicine toxicity
• Colibacillosis
• Collagenous Colitis
• Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH)
• Congenital adrenal hyperplasia - sodium-wasting form
• Congenital chloride diarrhea
• Congenital lactase deficiency
• Congenital Malabsorptive Diarrhea, 4
• Congenital sucrose-isomaltose malabsorption
• Corticosterone Methyloxidase type I Deficiency
• Cryptosporiosis
• Cutaneous photosensitivity colitis, lethal
• Cystic fibrosis - gastritis - megaloblastic anemia
• Cystinosis
• Defect in synthesis of adenosylcobalamin
• Developmental Lactase Deficiency
• Diabetes
• Diabetes Insipidus
• Diabetes insipidus, diabetes mellitus, optic atrophy
• Diabetes insipidus, nephrogenic type 2
• Diabetes insipidus, nephrogenic, dominant type
• Diabetes insipidus, nephrogenic, recessive type
• Diabetes Insipidus, Neurogenic
• Diabetes mellitus, transient neonatal
• Diarrhea
• Disulfiram toxicity
• Duodenal atresia
• Duodenal atresia tetralogy of Fallot
• Enteric Anendocrinosis
• Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia Coli Infection
• Epidermalolysis bullosa
• Epidermolysa bullosa simplex and limb girdle muscular dystrophy
• Epidermolysis bullosa, lethal acantholytic
• Epidermolytic epidermolysis bullosa
• Excessive dieting
• Familial Lactase Deficiency
• Fanconi syndrome
• Fanconi-ichthyosis-dysmorphism
• Food poisoning
• Fothergill disease
• Fowl paralyses
• Fowl Paralysis
• Galactosemia I
• Gastroenteritis
• Gastrointestinal bleeding
• Generalized pustular psoriasis
• Glucose-galactose malabsorption
• Harlequin type ichthyosis
• Helminthiasis
• Hereditary primary Fanconi disease
• HIV/AIDS
• HMG-CoA lyase deficiency
• Hyperemesis Gravidarum
• Hyperglycemia
• Hyperglycemic Hyperosmolar Nonketotic Syndrome
• Hyperreninemic Hypoaldosteronism, Familial 2
• Hyperthermia
• Hypoadrenalism
• Hypoadrenocorticism - hypoparathyroidism - moniliasis
• Hypoaldosteronism, familial
• Ichthyosis congenita, Harlequin fetus type
• Ichthyosis congenita, harlequin type
• Intermediate cystinosis
• Intestinal epithelial dysplasia
• Intractable diarrhea of infancy (generic term)
• Intractable diarrhea with enterocytes assembly abnormalities, congenital, familial
• Janbon syndrome
• Lipoid congenital adrenal hyperplasia
• Mareck's disease - nervous system
• Mareck's disease - visceral
• Marek disease
• Marek's disease
• Mercury poisoning
• Methylmalonic acidemia, vitamin B12 responsive
• Methylmalonicaciduria, vitamin B12 unresponsive, mut 0
• Microvillus Inclusion Disease
• Multiple endocrine neoplasia
• Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1
• Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2
• Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 3
• Nephrogenic diabetes insipidus
• Nephropathic cystinosis
• Pancreatitis
• Panhypopituitarism
• Parathyroid Cancer
• Periodic hyperlysinemia
• Plant poisoning - Castor bean (Ricinus communis)
• Plant poisoning - Rosary pea (Abrus precatorious)
• Plant poisoning - Water hemlock (Cicuta sp.)
• Polycystic kidney disease type 1
• Proximal tubulopathy - diabetes mellitus - cerebellar ataxia
• Pseudohypoaldosteronism type 1
• Pseudohypoaldosteronism type 1, autosomal dominant
• Pseudohypoaldosteronism type 1, autosomal recessive
• Pseudomembranous Colitis
• Pyloric stenosis
• Rotavirus
• Sarcosporidiosis
• Secondary Bone Cancer
• Secondary Lactase Deficiency
• Short Bowel Syndrome
• Sucrase-isomaltase malabsorption, congenital
• Sucrase-isomaltose malabsorption, congenital
• Toni-Fanconi syndrome type 1
• Toxic mushrooms - cyclopeptides
• Toxic mushrooms - Gastrointestinal irritant
• Type 2 diabetes
• Ulcerative colitis
• Vasopressin-resistant diabetes insipidus
• Vibrio
• Vibrio mimicus food poisoning
• Vibrio vulnificus infection
• Viral digestive infections
• Waterhouse-Friederichsen syndrome
• Whole-body acute irradiation - gastrointestinal syndrome
• Wolfram Syndrome 2
• Wolfram's disease

About underlying conditions:

With a diagnosis of Dehydration, it is important to consider whether there is an underlying condition causing Dehydration. These are other medical conditions that may possibly cause Dehydration. For general information on this form of misdiagnosis, see Underlying Condition Misdiagnosis or Overview of Misdiagnosis.
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