Bedwetting After Surgery?

Your could ask the Pharmacist if he has grape/bubblegum etc. type flavor additive to add to the medication to make it taste better, or you could ask him if he has any recommendations for flavoring you could add. This might help her be more willing to take her medicine.
About the bed wetting problem, it is not uncommon for children to regress after illness or surgery. Be patient she will soon be back to her previous potty trained status.
S. E.

The bed wetting could be her body reacting to the surgery. My daughter had a pretty bad accident last summer requiring alot of stitches and she wet the bed for a good month. Get a plastic cover for the mattress if you dont already have one and I would just put her to bed in those beg girl night time pullups. I explained to my daughter that she was not in trouble, her body was trying to heal, and if she did have an accident that it was still ok, we would just clean it up and start over. you might want to mention it to her doctor as well and see what they say.

I don't really know for sure, but just a thought ~ if she had a catheter, perhaps it did something to the muscle that holds the urine...(sorry for the "technical" terms). Or even just streched it, and it will eventually go back? Just a thought...I'd ask the doctor...

B.

it's pretty common....that was a traumatic experience for her. have the pharmacy double flavor your meds, or do what i do....put app 1 ml chocolate syrup, the medicine, then another ml chocolate syrup in the syringe. she'll taste the chocolate, open her mouth, in goes the med, she gets mad, and then tastes chocolate again before it dawns on her. just keep an eye out for bleeds...can happen up to 2 weeks out. if you notice a lot of swallowing bring her in right away. good luck!
love, a peds nurse

my son had his first set of tubes around 2 and then had a second set of tubes for his ears and his adnoids out at the same time around age 3. He was also potty trained even at night by about 26 months. What I found is that after the adnoids he slept much "quieter". He didn't have all the snot and congestion and hense I think the was actually sleeping much sounder and this made it more difficult for him to wake himself up to urinate. What I started doing was just waking him up between 1am and 3 am when I was up anyway to urinate and help him go. I did this for a few months and now he is able to do it on his own. Every once in a while he still wets the bed but almost always it is after a longday and no nap so he is just sooo tired. Hope this helps.

poor baby! i'm sure you'll get responses from people who have been there but while i haven't, i'd bet anything it's totally normal - my friend's little 18 month old just had surgery for a blocked tear duct and for the first couple weeks after, she was terrified of riding in the car. she's doing a lot better with it now. it's scary for them and they don't understand it very well, so regression i would think would be normal. who knows what explanations they come up with in their little heads...if any. i'm sure in a couple weeks she'll do better. the same things can happen when a new baby is coming, or a family moves. good luck!

Our little cousin did this and the doctor explained as being the first time he slept deeply so he wasn't awake enough to go potty. Rethink as if you are potty training again, time the drinks, limit the drinks and potty time before bed and maybe two hours later.

Good luck,
D.

I had the exact same question, that's how I came across this page. My 35 month old potty trained at night daughter started wetting the bed after she got her adenoids out. It's been 10 months now since she had surgery and no improvement. I was wondering if there was a relationship. Reading your experience makes me believe there has to be a connection. I hope there's a way to resolve it 'cos we've tried potty training all over again but to no avail.

My guess would be that she was having trouble breathing before the surgery, so she wasn't sleeping very deeply. Now that she can breathe properly, she sleeps better and doesn't wake up when needs to use the bathroom.

M.

M.,
If she was potty trained before, it will come back soon. Remember, to her the surgery was a huge big event. She is set back some, but will bounce right back soon. This is so normal for kids to do this after something so scary as surgery. I'd just put pull ups on at night. Don't let her know how concerned you are or it will an issue. Relax. Hang in there, the biggest job and most important job in the world is raising children, I might add, the hardest job. Your a good mom.
DE

Absolutely. Anesthesia by mask causes such anxiety in 50% of kids that many of them experience bedwetting, aggression, regression and develop a mistrust of medical personnel. This can last two weeks but can extend for 6 months to a years. Future exposure worsens this.
Just support her until she gets over the memory. Email me if it goes on longer