what is the problem when a 9 year old boy continues to urinate in the bed at night.?

Question

he says he cant wake up and dosent feel the wet

Answer 1

I knew a girl with the same problem, best thing to try and solve that is make sure no liquids about an hour before bedtime, and sometime during the night go into his room wake him up and take him to the bathroo, it work for my niece, she was a very deep sleeper, over a period of time of them getting used to waking up they will start on their own

Answer 2

I wet the bed til I was 10 years old. I must have been a heavy sleeper because I remember always dreaming that I was actually sitting on the toilet when I peed the bed, almost every night. It is extremely humiliating, especially to a sensitive child. What finally worked for me was a combination of several things. An alarm device that sounded when it got wet. No drinking after dinner. A determination to ask myself when I was dreaming about being on the toilet to question whether it was a dream or real. Oddly enough I still ask myself that in my dreams as an adult. I guess I made it into a habit.

Good luck, be patient, and be aware that he is probably VERY embarassed by it.

Answer 3

First, ask his Pediatrician. His bladder may be undersized or there could be another health issue.
Second, you set a timer or an alarm and you wake him up. Start for a couple of hours after he goes to sleep and go from there. Try to determine when exactly he seems to be wetting. He may be just a really hard sleeper(my son's problem).
Third-Talk to him about it. Not in a condescending way, but ask him things like,"When you dream do you see yourself going potty?"(this was my problem when I was a child and my husband's as well). Ask him if there is anything bothering him--maybe a bully at school, maybe he saw something that scared him--any of those sort of things can cause bed-wetting problems.

Most importantly, do not get mad at him for it. I'm sure he is embarrassed enough and doesn't need the added stress of knowing he has disappointed you.

Best of luck:)

Answer 4

some medical problems can cause this.

For instance, a little nerve damage to the bladder can cause a higher internal pressure in the bladder. Sometimes people go in for an xray and find they have a defect on their spine or something they never knew was there, and it turns out to be a nerve damage problem.

Sometimes the bladder is just way too small to be adequate for the persons size. I've heard sometimes the bladder will grow to catch up to the rest of the kids body later, but sometimes not.

Sometimes there is something else going wrong. I know one girl who had a "reflux" that was causing her urine to flow backwards to her kidneys, and her kidneys would get engorged (hydronephrosis) and then sometimes it would flow back and increase the pressure in her bladder.

There are things that can be going wrong. Some of these things can be treated. For instance sometimes there are pills that relax the muscles in the bladder and decrease the internal pressure. (you know those commercials that sing "gotta go right now". ) :D
There are different medications that can really help, prescribed to children under certain medical circumstances.

Sometimes something else needs done, and a urologist can advise you. (sometimes a surgery is needed)

Of course it could be just a matter of maturity, training, etc.
but it is only responsible to rule out a medical problem first.

Answer 5

i have a little brother who is 9 years old and he wets the bed also and he says the same thing, his doctors told us that it's probably an emotional problem because our mum died last year and it's his way of grieving i still don't understand it, but has anything dramatic been happening to him at school or at home? it could also be a rpoblem with bladder weakness or something, i think u should go to a doctor and explain how many times he does this, he is still only young and taking a bit more time than other to control it.

Answer 6

i had the same problem when i was 20 years old, all i had to do to stop it was stop drinking grain alcohol before i went to bed. I would be so drunk that i couldn't feel that i had pissed my bed and all over what ever floozie i was spending the night with. The alcohol also made me have to urinate very badly. I suggest not letting your 9 year old drink any more grain alcohol before bed time and maybe just a few beers instead.

Answer 7

That is why they invented PULL UPS.

Use these and or wake him up during the night.

That's what we did for our son. We used PULL UPS.

Eventually he grew out of it age 10 I believe it was & he is almost 12 yrs old now.

Don't let him DRINK ANYTHING AFTER 7/8 pm in the evening.

With our son, I think it was because we potty trained him TOO EARLY. Age 3 I think it was. From then on he has always had troubles during the night.

Daughter who is 2 1/2 yrs older and Son 5 yrs younger NEVER HAD PROBLEMS DURING THE NIGHT!!!

Answer 8

It may be a medical problem. My son wet the bed when he was younger and he did not wake up at night. The doctor said his body was growing faster than his kidneys.

Answer 9

I wish I had an answer for you, my 7 year old urinates in the bed EVERY F@#$ING DAY. I have tired everything maybe its genetics. My son tells me the same thing "he doesn't feel the wet.

Answer 10

he may have a bladder problem or just lazy or scared of something.i would say if you have had him at the drs and no bladder problem then wake him up every 2 or 3 hours in the nite.or at least make sure he urinates before. no drinking 2 hrs before bedtime.