I need a solution!

[aunt lissa]

I need some help and advice...both if ya got it! My ds is 4 y.o will be 5 next month. He is still wetting the bed! i don't know how to fix this. I've tried not giving him anything to drink up to 3 hours before bed time but it does no good. Sure yeah pull ups stop the mess but when is he gonna stop wetting?? My biggest concern is that his father had the same problem and didn't stop until he was 12 or so. I need help w/ this please!!!!

 

[Pam]

Have you taken him to the doctor and had a complete physical lately? And be sure to tell the doctor about his bedwetting.

The only other thing I can think of is to take him to the bathroom right berfore YOU turn in. He might be asleep but I have heard of parents doing this since the child usually goes to bed a couple of hours before the parent.....

 

[TLinden16]

Originally posted by aunt lissa
I need some help and advice...both if ya got it! My ds is 4 y.o will be 5 next month. He is still wetting the bed! i don't know how to fix this. I've tried not giving him anything to drink up to 3 hours before bed time but it does no good. Sure yeah pull ups stop the mess but when is he gonna stop wetting?? My biggest concern is that his father had the same problem and didn't stop until he was 12 or so. I need help w/ this please!!!!

My nephew had the same problem, and his doctor suggested something that helped him out. He suggested that my sister get him out of bed and make him go to the bathroom a couple hours after he went to bed, which wasn't a problem since she went to bed a couple of hours after him. She would walk him down, and he'd go to the bathroom, and go right back to sleep. He doesn't even remember being woken up. She had to do it for a couple of years, but eventually he didn't have to go anymore when they woke him, and it hasn't been an issue since.

I don't know if that is doable for you, or if it would work, but figured I'd mention it.

Karen

 

[preshi]

Austin (4) is having the same problem. Some nights he gets up on his won and goes potty other nights he sleeps through it... Dh pottys him when he gets up for work ( 4-5am) but thats been too late lately. I guess I'll have to get him up in the middle of the night so he gets back into getting up on his own.

Beautiful children by the way!

 

[CEDmom]

I would mention it to your doctor and also try having your DS go to the bathroom before you go to bed. Also make sure he has quick easy access to the bathroom during the night (i.e. light on & seat left up). However, you might just have to give him time for his bladder to grow and catch up to the rest of him.

Our DD is 4 and is in a pullup at night we've tried all the obvious solutions w/o luck. She had to have a kidney ultrasound after having a few UTI and I got a look at the size of your bladder. The Dr. commented that it was very small. So we're just waiting it out since she's yet to get through the night dry.

 

[Megan's Mom]

I have had several friends whose sons had this problem. One of them the dr said it was because of milk and dairy products. If he has milk like at dinner or later it would cause him to wet the bed. The other one would sleep so soundly that he would sleep through needing to go. She would have to get up and get him up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom. It seems that little boys have a lot more problem with that. also look and see if anything tramatic has happened to him or are there changes at home that sometimes sets them off to start wetting the bed. I could just be something minor.

 

[ripleysmom]

Pediatric Urologist

 

[cart-mom]

I have a DN who wet the bed so regularly DA was washing 2-3 bedsheets a day. Went through lots of medications and tests and they could never figure out what was causing it but they think it was because he was sleeping so deep he didn't know what was happening until it was too late. She did the witholding liquids and waking up to pee. What finally seemed to give her some relief and give him control was a beeper mat (?). A mat was placed onthe bed and the slightest moisture would set off a beeper to alert the sleeper.

He's 14 now and usually is okay but once in a while he has an accident. He is a middle child with an older brother that's a genius and all star in sports. So there is some pressure on him all the time.

Definitely talk with your ped about this. And hang in there knowing that you are not alone.

>>>`````` Pixie Dust ``````<<<<<<

 

[Nutsy]

been there done that...................my youngest DS now 14 only stopped wetting the bed last year.

We took him to the doc, did all sorts of things.............like trying to increase the size of his bladder by getting him to drink a litre of water a day & then holding on till he was almost busting before he went to the toilet..................with that we got at most 1 week dry........but it was short lived.......................it was back to square one again & time to look for some other way...................we got him some tablets from the health food store that he was to put under his tongue & this was supposed to fix it....................it didn't. So we pereserved for a year or so & went to the doc...........he gave us some tablets there were no sure cure, but certainly did help, esp when sleeping over or going on camp......

Unfortunately tho..................I hate to say it, but he will eventually grow out of it & it is more common in boys than in girls.

Good luck

 

[MerryPoppins]

DS slept too deeply to "hear" his brain tell him when he needed to go to the bathroom. Our doctor gave him a prescription nose spray that did the trick. I don't remember what it was, but he used it before he went to bed at night. A couple of bottles later, he seemed to get the hang of it and no more accidents.

 

[faithinkarma]

I was a bed wetter as a child. As an adult I learned one of my kidneys had atrophied, cause unknown. I have just been told my kidneys are failing.

There probably is no connection. But I sure wish it had been checked out years ago.

 

[aunt lissa]

Thank-you so much all for your advice. I will definetley speak w/ the doctor since that seems a common solution. And (slapping self in forhead) never even thought about getting him up before i went to bed! Geez I have so many of these not so bright moments. I've talked w/ his fathers parents and they said they tried everything from the alarm to meds and nothing worked for him. They had to wait it out. I'm hoping the Doc will be able to do something because he's humiliated by it. I try my best not to make him feel bad as to let him know that he's doing it while he's asleep so there for not concious of it. I just hope he understands what Mommy is trying to say.

preshi--Thanks for the comment on the children!

fathinkarma--sorry to hear of your news of your kidneys failing! I wish you the best! And please oh please take excellent care of yourself!!

Again thank-you all!

 

[tiggerlover]

My DS who is over 7 is a bedwetter, as was his father. I agree the first step is to talk to the doctor to rule out any kidney problems, but most children of bedwetters become bedwetters themselves. We have tried everything and still have not found a solution. DS can go weeks without an accident, then he will have one every night for a week, we just can't control it. He does not get anything to drink after dinner, he goes to the bathroom at 8:00 when he goes to bed, we get him up at 10:30, when we go to bed to go and the accidents still happen every now and then. We tried drops that were suppose to surpress wetting and they did no good, basically the doctor said he will grow out of it eventually. I can't wait for that day, I am tired of the waking in the middle of the night to a wet bed and the laundry, just glad it isn't as often any more.

 

[Donald's #1 Fan]

The main thing is don't worry about it as your concern will be picked up by your child. Most children go through this, mostly because they sleep too soundly. It will sort itself out eventually. Before you go to bed at night, try getting your wee one up to the toilet. Also, no soda drinks 3 hours before bed. I wish you well, and please don't worry.