Body & Soul0 min ago
Bedwetting
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.You may find it difficult to get a referral to a clinic at his age as most GP's will not see it as a "problem" until he is about seven or eight years old. There are various reasons why a child would wet the bed- One possibility is that he is not producing enough vasopressin which we have naturally in our bodies at night to slow urine production by the kidneys. Usual symptoms of this are large wet patches with weak urine. Another possibility is bladder instability with symptoms like sense of urgency during the day to go to the toilet, passing urine very frequently, smaller wet patches, they usually wake after wetting. It sounds like you are describing the first issue in which case you can ask your GP for vasopressin replacement therapy (usually tablets/nasal spray). Alternatively if your child goes to school then you can ask to speak to the school nurse who is usually up to date on issues such as bedwetting. Most of all don't worry- this problem is extremely common!
Hi. I know how frustrating this is as my son used to wet the bed at night. He was about 10 or 11 before he stopped wetting, which i know probably doesnt sound very good for you right now, but I do believe that they do grow out of it. Your son is still only 4 and personally I wouldnt think that it is anything out of the ordinary at his age and although its frustrating, if you persevere with it, im sure he will grow out of it. Alternatively you could try getting him up in the night before you go to bed though I used to find this disturbed my son's sleeping pattern to much. You could try speaking to your doctor or health visitor though as I have heard of having alarms put on the matress which detect wetness and then sound to wake the child up. My other son never wet at night at all and Im struggling to get my daughter toilet trained during the day at all. So dont worry too much, their all different!
My daughter has just recently stopped wetting the bed and she is 12! It is worth taking your son to the doctors as my daughter had to have a scan just to make sure everthing was working okay(which it was). We didn't take her untill she was 10 and were starting to worry. They did think about prescribing the nasal spray but as the bedwetting was becoming less frequent they said to leave her to grow out of it. She has now been dry for about 10 months!
The main thing to remember is not to get cross with children who bedwet, it is very difficult not to when it happens every night,but they can't help it.
Was watching Dr Phil today and saw a woman with the same concerns... the advice was to look into the family history as it is sometimes genetic, but even with this predisposition that the matress alarm is the best that you can do. He did also say what other people have said on this site, and that is Not to worry about it, your boy should grow out of it....
Hope that this helps too! :-)