I need help with my 2 kids that still wet most every night. My son is 5 1/2 and my daughter turned 8 this month. My 5 1/2 year old wets his pull up "every night" and sometimes thru the pull up onto his bed (which we have a pee-pad under the sheets). My daughter will wet her pull up about 4 nights per week. We do not stress her out about it. We give her praise when she informs us that she's had a dry night. Both of my kids are hard sleepers and both grind their teeth like they're crunching on rocks. They both wear bite-guards "most" nights. We've tried the pee alarm and that was a pain to remember to put it in her pull up, or it got thrown in the trash a couple of times and then in the end, my dog chewed up the unit (there went $150). I myself, wet the bed until I was 8. I'm not sure what else to do. Has anyone had any experience with the pills that the pediatrician's office will prescribe?
Ok, I cannot stress to you enough about the amount of experience I've had with this problem, but TRUST ME ON THIS. Please check this out before wasting time and money on pills that do not work.
Sleep patterns. Go to a sleep doctor. It has something to do with the way they sleep and they basically have to be 'reprogrammed'. Its a tedious process but it does work. Please, please, please check that out.
Hi M.,
My friend's daughter had the same problem. The pediatrician gave them a nasal spray and it worked beautifully. It only took about a week.
Good luck!
My sister had the same problem. Have you cut liquids out 3 hours prior to bedtime, especially milk? Milk causes a larger quantity of urine to pass, I don't know why, but it does. It is also, as one said previously, a sleep pattern. My sister had alarms and pads and so much trial and error, she grew out of it around age 10-12. Patience is all I can suggest right now, and maybe a urologist, not a pediatrician, they are too clinical in these areas.
Good luck! Do away with the sheets and just have them sleep on the water-proof pads to cut laundry!
Hi M.,
Just read your post and had to write you. My daughter wet the bed every night until she was 5. At that time, I took her to a urologist, because she had a bad bladder infection. It had backed up, almost to her kidneys and the doctor said it would have really messed her up it we hadn't caught it. Then I explained to him about her wetting the bed every night. Now listen to this.....
The doctor told me that he was giving her some nose spray called "DDAVP" nose spray. We would spray her nose, every night before bed, and she never wet the bed again....unless we forgot to spray her nose.
The reason it worked is....DDAVP is a hormone that our brain sends to our kidneys from the pituitary gland telling our kidneys not to produce urine....because we are asleep. In Christie and maybe your boys case, the pituitary gland wasn't sending the signal to shut down the urine production at night....so she and maybe your boys, would wet the bed.
When Christie was 11, and the age may be a little older in boys, she went through puberty and that meant that the pituitary gland was working and telling her body to change, so the doctor took her off of the nose spay.
She never wet the bed again!!!!
Talk to your son's doctor and if he won't help you, go see a urologist.
Hope this helps you.
K. a.
Hi, I am a 42 year old mother of 2. My daughter is now 22 years old with 2 kids but she wet the bed clear up into and after high school. I was told by the doctors here that she was acting out for one reason or the other. We tried everything, including a medication that is sprayed in the nose costing 100 dollars a bottle. Nothing worked. I tried praise, bribes, anything and everything. Come to find out, it is a medical condition. And she had no control at all over it. It was worse during times of stress. However, she would grow out of it. And she has. I dont remember the name of the condition, wish I could. But I just wanted you to know that I have been there. And it could be the same thing with your children. Dont beat yourself up either. It isnt your fault. It isnt because you arent spending enough time with them, or you get divorced, you are a single mom, it is none of that. I did that too. I thought it was all my fault. It isnt. Dont do that to yourself or to the children. They can and will grow out of it. It just may take time. My daughter was 19 the last time. Hope this helps some.
K. P
PS. I got ahold of my daughter and asked if she remembered the name that the doctor gave us. It was Functional Enureasis. I hope I have that spelling right. Also, she said that the advice the doctor gave was to cut off fluids right after dinner, start emptying the bladder an hour before bedtime, and to cut off as much stress to the child as possible. That last one is pretty hard, but my daughter said to tell you that the best thing for her was me sitting down and telling her that it wasnt her fault. Taking that pressure and responsibility off of her made it alot better.
Hope this helps.
K.
