My grandson is 9 yrs and still wets the bed....?

Question

The doctors want to give him pills for this problem but wouldn't there be a natural way? Anyone know?

Answer 1

do not let him take pills for it. I took every bed wetting pill they had and the side effects were worse than the wetting. I even ended up dehydrated from one of them and had to spend 2 nights in the hospital. after all this we tried alarms, they did not work, we tried every trick in every book. nothing worked. then one day after we had just decided to let me wear goodnites until I out grew it, I stopped.we just left the problem alone for a few months and it went away, I was 15 before I out grew it. just buy him some goodnites and let him out grow it. things will be a lot easier on both of you.

Answer 2

I had the same problem when I was younger. I wet the bed on and off until I was 16 years old. I am now 25 years old and still find it embarrassing though I no longer have this problem. Imagine how it might feel to your 9 year old. For me I quit drinking anything 2 hours before bedtime and I had to at least try and use the restroom before going to bed. Eventually I was put on a alarm which basically was a wire I attached to my undies and the little alarm box to my shirt. If wetness was present it sounded the alarm and alerted me to use the restroom. Luckily technology has become better and they now offer wireless alarms. I enclosed a link you could check out that offers nothing but bedwetting items. As I grew older and wanted to spend the night at friends house (which gave me much anxiety in itself) I was given a bottle of pills that would help. I took one pill right before bed when I was staying over and it allowed me to not have the embarrassment of wearing a alarm and letting my friends know my problem. With that said you should read a bit about bedwetting and its causes. For me hereditary was partially to blame but so was the sexual abuse. Hopefully this is not your case but things that cause stress which can just about be anything can trigger your grandson to have a "bad night". Good luck with it and make sure to show him some extra love on the rough nights as it is very embarrassing.

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Answer 3

Boys have a hormonal problem or lack there of that can last till puberty or their body is growing faster than the kidney. The medication is a good thing and safe, but it does cause dry mouth. It also causes a constant thirst that has to be curved at bedtime. So you are right to try to avoid it, but yaw need to ask him what he wants in this. There are not many ways out there to help bedwetting other than the night pants, my friends little boy who is now eleven, is glad they were invented and does not seem to be embarrased by them. The kids know he wets and they do not even mention it. Another way would be have his mother wake him up two times a night and nothing to drink after six. That is old fashioned but one of the most effective ways to handle it, and eventually the child starts getting up on his on in the night. Most children will stop wetting the bed between the age of eleven and fourteen. I was fifteen when I stopped my husband was fourteen.

Another thing my best friends son does is on nights that he goes to friends houses, he will use the pill, and only those nights. Sorry I could not help anymore than that.

Answer 4

I would suggest checking out this information: http://www.goodnites.com/na/bedwettinginfo/bedwettinginfo_treatment.asp
I wet the bed until i was probably about 12 or 13, and my parents never considered using medication. I feel that there are always other options to try, and it's better to try everything else before deciding to fill yourself or your kids up with drugs (only people who really benefit are the pharmaceutical companies). That is a link to the treatement options that are listed on goodnights.com, but there is plenty of other information on the site under different headings that might shed some light, and give you other ideas on what he could do.

Answer 5

I wet the bed till i was 12 (I'm not 37 ) my 2nd son wet the bed till he was 11 they have pull ups for kids with bed wetting problems at that age i was yelled told i was being lazy at and hit for wetting the bed at that age just let him know you understand and its not hes fault and he isn't a bad kid about meds for it i cant tell you what to do but I would never put mine on meds for it they do eventually out grow it its the size of his bladder that's the problem you can have him go to the bath room before bed and wake him up though out the night have him stop drinking 2 hours before bed get his bladder on some kind of schedule

Answer 6

I am not going to lie: I had the same problem around that age....and a few years afterwards. I had heard of a local chropractor who specialized in cases like this. It turns out that my spine wasn't alligned properly and it was pressing on some nerves that control the bladder. I tried everything suggested to me before-hand and nothing worked. I was going to travel across from one state to another for an 8th grade trip to disneyland where we would spend 2 nights on the bus and I didn't want to embarrass myself in front of friends. The very last ride I road was Splash Mountain and I got soaked, yet nothing happened that night and I hadn't prepared myself in case of an accident. For a number of years now, I haven't had not one problem with it and it was all worth it. I don't think pills are the best way to go. Sometimes they don't work, they cause more problems than they fix, or there is a combination of both. I hope you have the same luck with him that I had.

Answer 7

I wet the bed until I was about 11. Stop giving him drinks about 3 hours before he goes to bed. That helped a lot with me.

Answer 8

I agree with prismcat3-don't make a big deal out of it-at least not concerning with the child (no embarrassing comments, etc.) . Have you asked the doctors why they want him on pills? Have they explained everything about what could be causing this to you? What kind of pills? Are any of these doctors urologists? And please, keep checking for a natural way to take care of this. Plus, he should "outgrow" this in time. Take care.

Answer 9

The pills most likely will not help. I am saying this because my brother had this problem until he was 13, and finally we learned that if we give him a tablespoon of honey, and a handful of saltine crackers, it would help soak up the extra fluid, and it really did work. He stopped bed wetting and no longer has to take meds for it.

Answer 10

And what "natural" way would you suggest? Maybe a closepin on his penis at night? Your grandson obviously has a medical problem that he needs help with. I would listen to the doctors.