2006-09-05 07:19:50 · 7 answers · asked by Narnar H 1 in Health ➔ Other - Health
Most children just haven't developed the "brain-bladder" connection and need help conditioning the body to control the muscles in the bladder at night. Withholding liquids is NOT good advice. This may help reduce the volume of wetting, but as you know, your child will still wet. Your goal is to have him control his bladder whether he drinks alot or a little at night.
The most effective cure for bedwetting is the bedwetting alarm. A bedwetting alarm is a small moisture sensing alarm that, after a period of weeks, can teach children to control the muscles in the bladder and sleep dry at night. Children with bedwetting are very sound sleepers so the alarm helps to alert them when they are wetting.
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Your Friendly Pharmacist....
2006-09-08 11:06:13 · answer #1 · answered by Friendly Pharmacist 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get a bedwetting alarm. Most children can be dry in about 10 weeks (permanently dry). They will learn when they are wetting and learn how to get themselves up at night - no matter how much they drink. Restricting fluids won't help, even though most parents (and advisors here on Yahoo answers) often recommend that. You want your child, just like you, to be able to wake up a night no matter what you did the night before, right!!
Research shows a bedwetting alarm is best and works in 8 of 10 children, and they cost less than $100 bucks.
Search on bedwetting alarm. I send my patients to the Bedwetting Store web site.
2006-09-09 02:23:28 · answer #2 · answered by Dr Dry 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They say it's a sleeping disorder. They sleep so hard and sound - that they don't wake up when their body is telling them they have to "wet". Take your child to a doctor so that the problem can be addressed with the right kind of doctor. They have rubber sheets; you can wake your child up at night to use the toilet; and then, why not use diapers?
2006-09-05 07:31:21 · answer #3 · answered by Topez 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They have drugs for this now that your kid can take that will help. Please take the child to the doctors as at that age there may be several things that he needs treatment for such as bladder problems. Please do not punish the child for this as he/she cannot help themselves as it very well can and most likely is a problem that a doctor can fix.
2006-09-05 07:26:55 · answer #4 · answered by redhotboxsoxfan 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Take him to a counselor, long term bed-wetters turn out disproportionately to be arsonists.
2006-09-05 07:25:08 · answer #5 · answered by apostate03 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Buy pampers overnight
2006-09-05 07:26:32 · answer #6 · answered by CaseySokach 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
wet the bed for him/her just before putting him/her to bed.
apparently he/she likes it like that
2006-09-05 07:27:53 · answer #7 · answered by JLT 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋