What is Bed Wetting?
By around age 4, children start gaining control over bladder and stop urinating in their bed at night (and stay dry). But in some even beyond the age of 5, control is not developed, especially in boys and leads to bed-wetting.
Symptoms of Bed Wetting
- Even beyond the age of 5-6 years involuntary loss of nighttime bladder control.
Causes of Bed Wetting
- Psychological factors are rarely responsible for persistent bed-wetting.
- Deficiency of the hormone ‘œvasopressin’, that regulates flow of urine between the kidneys and bladder and genetic component can be one of the causes of bedwetting
- Urinary tract infections, diabetes, epilepsy, kidney problems, unusually small bladder, mental retardation and developmental disorders maybe the physical causes.
Home remedies to stop Bed Wetting
- During the day, let your children hold the urine for a long time. This will encourage bladder control.
- Plenty of fluid in-take during the day and only small quantities when required at night.
- Involve your child in daily activities like arranging bed, laundering the sheets.
- Diapers should be used only till the age of four. Nighttimes make children wear extra thick pairs of underwear to absorb the urine. Arrange a plastic cover on their bedding topped with 2 sets of sheets, with a rubber pad between them.
- Before going to bed, get the child to empty his bladder to the maximum.
How can one prevent Bed Wetting
- Encourage the child to get up to urinate, even several hours after bedtime.
- Do not scold your child for bed-wetting. Convince him that the condition can be overcome gradually.
- Praise your child for dry nights and reward him/her.
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My daughter is 11 years old .she is wetting the bed every day. Sometime she will be very kind and smiley. Some time she will be very anger, never adjusted with her friends also. Please give me some remedy.
My daughter is 6 years old and has been bed wetting since she was a child. My son who is 10 years old never had this problem after 2 years. I’m very worried. Should I take her to the doctor or this can be treated at home. She even wets her pants sometimes during the day.
My daughter is 4 year old now she started bed wetting since last four month, I think may 2005. Before that she did not. She did only in the night. During day time she would tell us when she wanted to urinate. She is ok at school too. How do I get her to stop bed wetting?
Get up at regular intervals and take her to urinate. Find out what time you can do this daily and the frequency. Avoid giving a lot of fluids a few hours before bedtime. Once you make it a habit to get up at night to go urinate, she will do it herself. Will take some time, but you must practice this exercise strictly to cure her going in bed.
My son is 6 years old and has been operated for hernia on both the sides one operation was done at the age of three and another was dine at the age of four. He has no stress on him. He has been doing urine before sleeping but still has been bedwetting. What might be the reason? Is it that his bladder is unable to control the urine? Please let me know.
My Daughter is 8 years old and she wets the bed every night invariably. We ensure that she does not consume much water in night, but she manages to wet the bed. She is a single child, please let us if she could be affected psychologically.
My son is now 8 yrs. recently he started to bed wet (since last one month) initially he used to get up from his sleep to go to the loo even if he is in deep sleep. Pls help hope this is nothing psychological.
Follow these guidelines to ensure that your child stops wetting his bed.
- Keep him from drinking water, about, 2 hours before bed time. Have an early dinner, and ascertain that he doesn’t consume any fluids after that.
- Set a specific time, say 3 to 4 hours after he has gone to bed, and wake him up at that hour to take him to the cloak room. Follow this practice for at least 2 weeks.
You say, he has started wetting the bed recently. How recently?
Was he ever wetting the bed earlier?
Has there been any form of emotional disturbance at home or at school? Since he this is not a case of bed wetting out of habit, there could be an underlying psychological cause.
Some of the Homoeopathy remedies that may help fight bet wetting are:
Kali-Phos 6X, 5 pills, 5 times a day for 2 weeks. This remedy works therapeutically on the nervous system and urinary control, bringing the required response without any side effects.
It would be beneficial if you could ascertain the cause and follow up after 2 weeks.
Bed wetting is also called nocturnal enuresis. Children below the age group of 3 years may have a habit, and are known to wet the bed at night involuntarily. It is due to the slow development of the bladder function.
It is also influenced genetically; bed wetting runs strongly in families. Other contributory factors are stress, urinary tract infection, anxiety, and constipation.
Loss of bladder control during day has to be seriously treated for the underlying cause.
The best way to treat, is to train your child, this is done by regular emptying of the bladder before going to the bed.
In most cases bed wetting improves without treatment, if it persists after the age of 8 to 9 years of you have to take the medical help of the doctor.
Try a few of these:
1. Let her drink less water after evening.
2. Take her to the toilet to empty her bladder just before she sleeps
3. Make sure she is not stressed whole going to bed.
4. Do not make her very conscious of the fact that her bed wetting is a major problem for you. She may get disturbed and lose her sleep over it – causing some other kind of problems.
5. Wake her up in a few hours and empty her bowels once of twice a night.
6. Once she realizes how nice it is to feel dry and clean for a few days, she may get motivated to try a bit more on her own.
7. One more thing you can try is to ask her to control her urination urge during the day. Try and see if you can make her control for about half an hour from the first time she expresses a desire to urinate. This exercise may help her strengthen her bladder muscles.
Every little effort helps – I am not sure how much medicines can help in bed wetting problems.