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Bedwetting is a big source of embarrassment for young children who suffer with this condition. The medical term for bedwetting is enuresis. It is believed that about 15-20% of school age children between the ages of 4 and 16 suffer from this embarrassing condition. While most outgrow it, in the mean time it can be a living nightmare, making the children afraid to go to camp or sleep overs.
What causes enuresis? Bedwetting is a sleep disorder. The child sleeps so soundly that they can not wake up to go to the bathroom. There are different levels of sleep. Most of us have heard of REM sleep (rapid eye movement), which is the level of sleep in which we dream, but there is a deeper level of sleep in which the child is sleeping so deeply that he cannot awaken to go to the bathroom.
Bedwetting is expected to be hereditary. You usually always find someone else in the family who suffered from it or sleep walking. Other problems associated with bedwetters are low self esteem, lack of attention span, trouble completing tasks and school work assignments, daydreaming, and a restlessness and/or inability to sit or lie still for periods of time.
Myths associated with causes of bedwetting are:
-child has a small or weak bladder- if this was the case, they would have the same trouble in the day time.
- emotional problems, they can control it- this is absolutely false, they cannot control it. Never ever fuss at a child who has enuresis.
-must restrict fluids at bedtime, if the bladder filled up too fast because of too much fluids then the person would still just get up in the night to urinate more, also food turns into drink in the long run, which will be excreted as urine.
-bribing will help- on the contrary it will lead to big time dissappointment and frustration for the parents, but especially the child.
-alarms solve the problem. Well the alarm goes off right after wetting occurs. We need something to help before the wetting occurs.
If you know someone who suffers with this condition, please research further. There are several things on the market. Go to bat for you child.
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