My youngest turned 6 this past summer and still required a pull-up at night which was regularly soaked. I patiently waited until he turned six, because medical advice I read was to wait until then, and discussed it with the pediatrician. He promptly offered meds. I had read about the alarm and asked him about it. He said, "Oh sure, if you want to do that, but insurance won't pay for it." Well fine, not a problem for me. Didn't want to medicate if I didn't have to.
So, we ordered the alarm online from a place called the bedwetting store. I had already asked my son if he wanted to try it, and he thought it was cool. He was so excited and kept asking for it until it was here. The day it arrived we practiced manually turning it on and letting him turn it off and he wore it that night. Well, for two weeks it went off every night. He got himself up (part of the plan), turned off the alarm, changed to dry, changed the pad on the bed etc.... They also recommend measuring urine output - and the results there were discouraging. He must have a very, very small bladder. Well, one night we had a big party and he had unlimited access to soda - almost unheard of in our house. I was ready for the deluge. But, amazingly, he was dry for the first time ever. Next night, dry again. We continued to have him wear the alarm for 2 more weeks, also part of the plan - no accidents. Well, now in about 6 months, he has had 2 or 3 very minor accidents! I am a convert.
I just wanted to throw that out there, because you very rarely hear anyone mention a child bed-wetting or what they did that helped. In our case there is a family history of problems to much older ages and I didn't want my son to get old enough to be embarrassed or anything. We were always totally low-key about the whole thing and he was never worried about it, he just thought the technology was cool - like a bedtime toy. Boy was he proud to be dry though. And all that money saved on pull-ups has already paid for the alarm. Now it can go for Disney tickets or something else fun.
So, we ordered the alarm online from a place called the bedwetting store. I had already asked my son if he wanted to try it, and he thought it was cool. He was so excited and kept asking for it until it was here. The day it arrived we practiced manually turning it on and letting him turn it off and he wore it that night. Well, for two weeks it went off every night. He got himself up (part of the plan), turned off the alarm, changed to dry, changed the pad on the bed etc.... They also recommend measuring urine output - and the results there were discouraging. He must have a very, very small bladder. Well, one night we had a big party and he had unlimited access to soda - almost unheard of in our house. I was ready for the deluge. But, amazingly, he was dry for the first time ever. Next night, dry again. We continued to have him wear the alarm for 2 more weeks, also part of the plan - no accidents. Well, now in about 6 months, he has had 2 or 3 very minor accidents! I am a convert.
I just wanted to throw that out there, because you very rarely hear anyone mention a child bed-wetting or what they did that helped. In our case there is a family history of problems to much older ages and I didn't want my son to get old enough to be embarrassed or anything. We were always totally low-key about the whole thing and he was never worried about it, he just thought the technology was cool - like a bedtime toy. Boy was he proud to be dry though. And all that money saved on pull-ups has already paid for the alarm. Now it can go for Disney tickets or something else fun.
I hope he gets his fill of Mickey ice cream bars.
No one else in our family has had this problem and we were not getting any help from our pediatrician. So thank you! 
But, she has begun a med called DDAVP ( very long name), and for the first time, has been dry for over 8 days
