Prevention of bed wetting?

Question

What is the best way to stop or prevent bed wetting/nocturnal enuresis in a 7 year old normal boy without giving medicines. Is there a herbal or natural treatment please?

Ram

Answer 1

Bed-Wetting (Primary Nocturnal Enuresis) - Home Treatment

Most children gain bladder control over time without any treatment. A child should first be allowed to overcome bed-wetting on his or her own. However, home treatment may help a child to wet the bed less frequently.

You can help manage your child's bed-wetting:

* Monitor your child's consumption of liquids. As a rule of thumb, children should be encouraged to consume 40% of their total daily liquids in the morning, 40% in the afternoon, and 20% in the evening. Talk with your health professional about how much fluid your child needs.
* Restrict your child's intake of caffeine. Caffeine is a diuretic, which means that it promotes the excretion of urine. Foods such as chocolate and beverages such as colas and tea that contain caffeine should only be consumed during the morning and afternoon hours.
* Have your child use the toilet before going to bed.
* Remind your child to get up during the night to go to the bathroom. It may help to keep a night-light near or potty chair beside the bed.
* Let your child help solve the problem, if he or she is older than 4.
* Praise and reward your child for dry nights. Involve your child in planning the reward system. You may want to use a calendar and put stars or stickers on the days that your child does not wet the bed.
* Encourage your child to take responsibility for changing clothes and linens after a bed-wetting accident. For example, use washable sleeping bags as bedding so your child can easily replace one that is wet with one that is dry.
* Offer your child disposable nighttime training underpants. Don't force a child to wear them, but if you are both comfortable with using them, there is no reason not to.
* Add 0.5 cups of vinegar to the wash water to get rid of the urine odor in clothing and bed linens.

If your child wets the bed, don't blame yourself or your spouse. Don't punish, blame, or embarrass your child. Your child is neither consciously nor unconsciously choosing to wet the bed. Give your child understanding, encouragement, love, and positive support.

* Be patient about changing the bed linens. Don't act offended by the smell of urine.
* Do not wake the child up at different times during the night to go to the bathroom unless it is part of a systematic treatment that the child has agreed to.
* Do not make the child feel bad (shaming). Shaming or punishing the child may make the problem worse.
* If you think your child may be feeling emotional stress, talk with a health professional about whether counseling may be helpful.

Teaching your child bladder-control exercises and techniques may help reduce the number of bed-wetting episodes.

The best solution is often a combination of treatments. Below are some suggestions for treatment options according to the age of your child.

* Ages 5 to 8: Help your child understand that wetting the bed is a normal part of growing up. Encouragement and praise may be all that is needed to help your child wake up before wetting. Children in this age group should be praised for dry nights and should take an active role in cleaning up after wetting.
* Ages 8 to 11: If your child still wets the bed, a moisture alarm may be a successful treatment option. It can be used in combination with occasional use of a medication such as desmopressin, which can be helpful for social events such as camp or sleepovers.
* Ages 12 and older: Since there can be significant emotional effects if bed-wetting persists at this age, treatment can be more aggressive. Continuous use of medication is warranted if consistent use of moisture alarms does not prove effective. After your child achieves 2 months of consecutive dryness, taper the medication gradually while still using the alarm.

Answer 2

My niece wet the bed until she was 15, everything was tried the Dr., no drinking after a certain time, went to the bathroom before bed, she was woke up in the night to go, and she would still wet sometimes. Only she would get in trouble because my brother was being an a**. she grew out of it and now her youngest son does the same thing they have pull ups big enough for 7 year olds and he wears on every night just in case. Most kids grow out of this. Don't give him medicine.

Answer 3

Herbal and homeopathic remedies

Some herbal remedies, such as horsetail (Equisetum arvense) have also been used to treat bed-wetting. A trained homeopathic practitioner, working at the constitutional level, will seek to rebalance the child's vital force, eliminating the imbalanced behavior of bed-wetting. Common homeopathic remedies used in this treatment include Causticum, Lycopodium, and Pulsatilla
Hope this helps some.

Answer 4

I would avoid any herbal treatments.....herbs are basically unregulated drugs. Chemical drugs are regulated by the FDA, but that isn't much better when you see how many drugs are pulled off the market AFTER people have been sickened or killed by using it.

The best natural treatment I can think of is this: Don't drink anything after 6:30PM. And yes, have the child wear that special underwear....just in case. This too shall pass, but I think being strategic would be alot better than using something that might cause undesirable effects.

Answer 5

There are many ayurvedic medicines. they can be suggested if your location is known. You may pose this question also to ayurevdaonline yahoo group.

as a simple remedy, give him following at bedtime

1 cup milk+1 cup water, add 1 tsp aswagandha powder, 1/4 tsp ginger powder slow boil till 1 cup remains, add cardamom a pinch and let him drink lookwarm.

Take for 1 month minimum to see the effect. you cant see any significant effect in a week or two.

Answer 6

Place he/she wear in a nappy at night and put a plastic mattress protector on the bed. This is not unusual I slept in a nappy every night up to been 10yrs old and had a plastic sheet on my bed, this is part of growing up. I still have a plastic sheet on my bed now as I still occasionally wet the bed.

Answer 7

We use to wake up my cousin and put her on the potty she had a small bladder she did stop wetting the bed when she got older if you take them to the bathroom before you go to sleep you will be fine

Answer 8

Make him eat a good amount of til laddoos before going to bed. Bed wetting should reduce in a month and disappear in five months.

Answer 9

Some one in my relation was having same problem a kid of eight years.

for that they consulted a doctor and was ok after few month..


one thing more a kid should not be frighten by teachers or parents in any one . He should sleep well without any tention
in mind.

Answer 10

sr,
plz try to avoid giving the medicines....take care by natural tips.... jst reduce the liquid food from evening times... make use of food with lots of stuff...make him habbit of urination before going to bed and see that he is not directly geting tje cool air which cause the bed wetting... but plz avoud using medicins.. they may give relief fo now but would give adverse effect lateron which may effect his gentle organs...