This Is Why Your Child Will Not Stop Wetting Their Bed

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It is okay for a child to wet the bed as a toddler but it should be worrying they get older and still wet the bed. If this is the case then it should be taken seriously.

At the age of five the bladder has not yet developed so take it easy on the child, but you can encourage them to try. There should not be any course of alarm.

According to paediatricians parents should be concerned after the age of six because at this age because of changed social behaviours.

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Dr Yemula says: “This is mainly because children’s social lives change at about six or seven when they’re being invited for sleepovers or on overnight trips. It’s then it becomes a real worry for parents.”

When you child hasn’t stopped bed wetting it is good to seek medical help, but just before you do anything this is what you should check.

1.Check that your child isn’t constipated – it can be linked to bed-wetting.

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Around a third of ­children suffer from constipation at some time. If the bowel is full it can press against the bladder.

“Normal toilet visits are anything between three times a day and four times a week. A healthy bladder and bowels can be key to ­stopping bedwetting,” Says Brenda Cheer, a specialist continence paediatric.

2.Could bed-wetting be caused by drinking too much?

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According to experts, a child should drink 6-8 cups of drinks in a day, of course with the approprate size of cup. The drinks should also be spread out during the day so that the bladder is to stressed.

3.Do some drinks aggravate it?

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WE have mentioned that they should take 6-8 cups of fluid but did you know that not all fluids will work in favour of the mission to stop bed wetting?

Drinks like orange juice, squash, blackcurrant juice and fizzy pop can stimulate an already over-active bladder.

When children are having their final Pee before bed, encourage them to count to 30 and then squeeze out any more so the bladder’s empty.”

4.Find out why don’t they wake up to pee?

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“When some children are asleep, they don’t respond to the signal from their bladder to their brain that they need to wee,” says Brenda Cheer.

“One solution is a wearable alarm or bed mat that alerts the child when they start to urinate. At first they won’t wake up in time, but gradually it will train them to get up to go.”

5. Why can most of us go the night without a pee?

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Normally, we all make a hormone at night called vasopressin. When we sleep, it tells our kidneys to make less but more concentrated urine, but in some bedwetters, this hormone isn’t working. A sign of this is if they wet the bed very soon after going to sleep – and with lots of diluted wee rather than a small patch.

If this is the case, children can be given a medicine called desmopressin.

Other causes of Bedwetting include:

New environments – especially if they are being bullied

Genetics – If a parent was a bed wetter there’s a 40% chance the child will be too.

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