Bedwetting In Children
July 21, 2008
Bedwetting in children is involuntary urination during sleep. Enuresis is a medical term of bedwetting. It is very common in young children usually under the age of 6-7. About 10% of all six year olds and about 3% of all 14 year olds wet the bed. In a very small number of cases, bedwetting can continue into adulthood.
Bedwetting is more common among boys than girls. It is considered the primary condition of bedwetting, if the child wet the bet occasionally at night. Secondary condition refers to bedwetting episodes that occur after a child has been dry at night for a considerable length of time.
What causes bedwetting?
Genetic disorder can be a cause of bedwetting in children, if this problem runs in the family the chances of having this problem increases in child. A child wetting the bed is 40%, if one parent suffered and 70%, if both parents suffered. So there is often a genetic element.
If a child is facing any kind of mental or physical stress he may wet his bed at night. Some children do wet the bed if they have anxieties at home or school, but more often bed-wetting is a cause of unhappiness.
Child has difficulty in waking up from sleep then it may prove problematic in order to have wet bed.
Child has normal development of central nervous system as it reduces the child’s ability to stop the bladder from emptying at night.
The bladder is made up of muscle and can increase and shrink as urine enters or leaves. The bladder in most cases is a normal size physically. However, it is not able to hold a normal amount of urine because of muscle spasms.
Dietary factor can be another cause of having bedwetting in children.
If a child having certain medications then, it can cause bedwetting.
Urinary tract and abnormalities in urinary tract can cause bedwetting in children.
A diabetic child generally wet the bed.
Some children produce a lot of urine at night, because the mechanisms that reduce urine production at night are slow to develop and again, there is nothing actually wrong.
A deep sleeping pattern is main cause of bedwetting in children. Apparently these children often sleep so deeply that they are not aware of the message the bladder sends to the brain saying it is full.
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Hi, you have lots of great advice for parents. Children with this problem can become very frustrated as they become older and have difficulty preventing themselves from wetting the bed. I have found that the best solution is to institute a reward system for dry nights. Using a calendar is a good way to implement this method. Of course this can be used in conjunctions with liquid restrictions at bedtime, etc. I have also known bed wetting alarms to be highly effective.
I have two children. In one, the reward system worked like a charm. For the second we resorted to the alarm and it worked within a few weeks.