Bed wetting help

pink_princess

Boys are dry alot later than girls .Put on wet sheets and just keep up with it.Around 7 is normal for boys(upto 11).DO NOT make him feel different and abnormal.

KellyWelly

Would he wear the pyjama pants Huggies make? They also do pyjama shorts I noticed today in Tesco. My daughter is almost five and still wets occasionally, my son was probably five and half when he grew out of it. Apparently it's an inherited thing, if the parents were late being dry at night then their children are likely to be late also. There are medical reasons for it though as well. I know thread worm infestation can make children wet the bed and also urinary tract infections can do the same. If you are worried check with your dr but I'd say in all honesty and from experience it's perfectly normal. I bet if you ask the parents of your son's classmates they will admit their children do it occasionally as well. All of our friends' children do it or did it.

jack*tigger

Might seem obvious but don't give him too much to drink close to bedtime.
Take him to the loo before he goes to bed and if he's wetting before 10pm take him to the loo again at 9 or 9:30.

DS took a while to be dry at night too - 5 or 6 I think.

PolishBigSpender

pink_princess wrote: »

Boys are dry alot later than girls .Put on wet sheets and just keep up with it.Around 7 is normal for boys(upto 11).DO NOT make him feel different and abnormal.

Utter rubbish.

Anything later than 5 and there's a problem - it certainly isn't 'normal' for boys to wet the bed at 7, or later!

HelenKA_2

As has been said there can be a family pattern to it and also UTI's worms etc must be checked for but if the child is ok during the day then it's quite possibly that he isn't drinking enough.

I took my 7 yr old to the Sick Kids (in Edinburgh) and the advice and help we were given was absolutely excellant. I'm a sick kids nurse myself so I knew that the clinics don't usually let this become an issue until after the age of 7 - while most children are dry in the night before that there is a significant number who aren't.

I knew that they'd ask me to do a star chart so I jumped the gun and did that before we went for our first appointment which meant that we cuold get straight on to the alarm.

The sister gave us the alarm but she spent a long time with us first talking to both S and I getting a picture and making sure that S herself was wanting to get this sorted out, not just the Mother!

She took down what S drunk in a day and what type of drinks and told us that at 7 years old she should be drinking at least 1 litre each day, before 7pm and not caffine based drinks.

I gave her an extra drink in her lunch box (previously she just had her water bottle all day and often didn't finish it) encouraged her to drink up all of her water bottle, made sure she had another fresh drink (usually squash) when she came home and finished her drink at breakfast and dinner.

We came away from the clinic with fun progress charts which S was to fill in herself and I was given a lot of literature.

We attended the clinic again after 2 months and then had another appointment made which I could cancel if we had cracked it. We had, and I can't praise the Sick Kids enough.

The reasoning is this....if your kidneys haven't dialysed enough during the day they think they still need to dialyse in the night instead of lessening while we sleep. So you need to boost the dialysing during the day so that they can shut down a bit while asleep so the bladder doesn't fill so much in the night.

Lifting them during the night isn't a good thing to do as you are waking the child not the full bladder.

Hope this is helpful to you

Helen

Please don't get side tracked by PolishBS's inflammatory comments. As I said, nocturnal enuresis is not considered any problem until at the earliest 7 years old and even then it isn't a big problem unless the child feels it so. Yes, it should be checked out so and the ball set rolling but there are many reasons that this could be happening, physical or mental and it is indeed only a problem if you and the child considers it one.

ariba10

Apparently it is a problem more in boys than girls.

I have known of two or three boys that had a problem with it until well into their teens.

It was devastatingly embarrassing for them at the time.

No sleepovers etc.

But they all grew out of it in the end.

Loz01

PolishBigSpender wrote: »

Utter rubbish.

Anything later than 5 and there's a problem - it certainly isn't 'normal' for boys to wet the bed at 7, or later!

Why not? So if a 6 year old wets the bed a couple of times because they're worried about school/family/friends, they're abnormal and need help? :rolleyes: How judgemental.

HelenKA_2

ooooppppppppsss sorry

allIcouldwishfor

I know how frustrating this can be. DS was dry from age 3, then as soon as he turned 4 started wetting the bed 2-3 times per week and this continued until age 6. Doctors won't do anything until a child turns 7. All you can do is make life easier for yourself by using bedmats, pyjama pants, etc and wait for them to grow out of it. We said that once DS managed 3 dry nights in a row he could go back to wearing pants instead of pullups, and tried sticker charts, reward systems, but it still took over 2 years and he's not entirely reliable now. When he's particularly tired or a bit under the weather it still happens, normally when it's least convenient!

At the Scout Beaver camp last October there were lots of parents of boys aged 6-8 who were worried about it and thought their son was the only one, so it's much more of a common problem than you may realise. I bet very few of your sons peers are dry at night if you ask around.

pink_princess

PolishBigSpender wrote: »

Utter rubbish.

Anything later than 5 and there's a problem - it certainly isn't 'normal' for boys to wet the bed at 7, or later!

Funny then why are they best sellers at all supermarkets in the country(night shorts for boys aged 5-7)