Bedwetting

Bedwetting (nocturnal enuresis) is worrying and can be frustrating, but it's common for children to accidentally wet the bed at night. The problem usually resolves in time.

Bedwetting is common in young children, but a child gets older, it gets less common.

It is estimated that:
12 children
1 four-and-a-half-year-olds wet the bed regularly (at least twice a week regularly defined)
Children seven and a half years old at the regularly wet the bed 40 in 1
Children wet the bed regularly at nine and a half years old, 1 65
Adulthood in approximately 1 in 100 people will continue to wet the bed.

Bedwetting is more common in boys than girls.
When you see your GP
If it begins to bother the kids or the parents of bedwetting is only really a problem. This is hardly the only problem in children under 5 years of age. Bedwetting (sleepovers blocking, for example) can affect a child's social life for many families to seek treatment first.
(Bedwetting child if it finds particularly upsetting, though exceptions can be made), medical treatments are not recommended for children under five.
Your child often wets the bed and find it upsetting, speak to your GP for advice

Why does my child wet the bed?

There is no obvious reason why children wet the bed, and it's usually not your child's fault. In many cases, the problem families.
Bedwetting Your child could be caused by:
• cope with their bladder to produce more urine
• What is it that can hold only a small amount of urine, have an overactive bladder
They are a very deep sleeper so that their brain does not react to signals that their bladder is full •
Constipation often do not wet themselves every night, especially in children, is associated with bedwetting. Even during the day, do not touch the children in these cases, bedwetting occurs during the night. Sometimes, all that is needed to treat bedwetting, constipation treatment. Untreated constipation, bedwetting is very difficult to make any treatment.
Occasionally, bedwetting, such as rough or moving to a new school, which can be triggered by emotional stress.
In rare cases, it may be a symptom of a health condition, such as bedwetting

Treatment for bedwetting

The plan recommends that your child drinks such as limiting the amount of liquid in the evening, and they should go to the toilet before going to sleep, is usually the first few steps to try yourself.
Also important for reassuring your child that everything is okay. This will not help them let off or to punish them for wetting the bed will not make the problem worse. It is important for them to know they're not alone, and it will get better.
These measures alone will not help, often recommended as a bedwetting alarm. The child wears a moisture-sensitive pads in their night clothes. The alarm sounds if the child begins to pee. Over time, the bladder is full of alarm to wake up once training is to help a child.

If an alarm is incapable of working or, as the medication desmopressin or use oxybutinin.
However, sometimes temporarily return to bedwetting, many children respond well to the treatment.

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