A patient suffering with severe cholera:

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A patient suffering with severe cholera:

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passes very little urine due to severe dehydration.

Reason — In cholera, a large quantity of water is lost from the body through severe diarrhoea and vomiting. To conserve the little water that is left, the kidney tubules reabsorb more water, so only a small quantity of concentrated urine is passed.

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