All about Bed Wetting

Bedwetting is stressful for everyone involved. Lack of bladder control can cause embarrassment, shame, and interfere with normal social development. Bedwetting can be uncomfortable and embarrassing for both parent and child. It becomes even more so if the bedwetter is an older child.

Bedwetting is sometimes called enuresis. Childhood bedwetting happens in many families.

Bedwetting or enuresis is the involuntary passage of urine during sleep for girls over age five years and boys over age six years. By age six years, only ten percent of children have enuresis, and approximately fifteen percent of these individuals attain nighttime dryness each year subsequent to age six.

Bedwetting can be caused by structural disorders of the urinary tract, neurological deficits or developmental delays, and it can also be an indicator of juvenile diabetes . Most often, however, there is not a clearly defined cause of bedwetting. Bedwetting may sometimes be related to a sleep disorder. In most cases, it is due to the development of the child's bladder control being slower than normal. Bedwetting in children past toddler age can be the sign of a urinary tract infection, and you should have the pediatrican check it out.

Bedwetting often occurs in males than females. Normally it stops completely by their adolescence, still it can remain continue in fewer adults. Bedwetting is very embarrassing to children and if not handled sensitively, it can have psychological effects, such as making them feel ashamed of fearful. Alarms for bed wetting help to treat the problem rather than just mask the symptoms to make it appear as if the bed-wetting problem has been resolved.

Children commonly wet the bed during times of emotional upheaval, such as divorce, death or the addition of a new baby to the family. This needs a different approach.

Bedwetting occurs at a very important time in a child's life; a time when they are learning to develop social skills and make new friends. Children need reassurance and support during this period.

Bedwetting can be a symptom of a much more serious problem, an inherited sleep disorder. The sleep disorder can show up in many ways night terrors, sleepwalking, sleep apnea but for 15-20 million children, it's about waking up to wet sheets. Bed wetting alarms that get children to be dry at night may be helpful, but if your child was going to be dry anyway (as most children will be), you could well have wasted your money.

I personally tried many betting wetting alarm, but they only left my child awake and distressed.

Children can become anxious about their own ability to influence the outcome. Try as they might to help, they feel powerless to stop wetting the bed, and in time their self-esteem may even suffer.

Bedwetting is not the child's fault and children should never be punished for wetting the bed.