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Bedwetting - Dont despair there is a solution
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Written by Helen Finch   

 
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If your child wets the bed don’t despair, modern bedwetting alarms are medically proven to cure 90% of children aged six plus


• Over 500,000 children in the UK aged 5+ wet most nights
• Surprisingly, 12% of 6-year olds and 5% of 10-year olds wet regularly
• 98% of cases have a genetic cause
• Only 2% of cases have a medical or emotional cause
• Lifting or limiting drinks will not cure a child


1 in 7 children between the ages of 5-18 wake each morning to a wet bed and a feeling of disappointment. Most doctors cannot refer a child to an enuresis (bedwetting) clinic until the age of 7; then there is a 2-10 month waiting list. The irony is, for most children there is a simple yet effective method of curing the problem at home.


The vast majority of bedwetting is genetically based. If even one parent, or a relative, was a bedwetter, it is more likely that your child wet. Three factors combine to produce a bedwetter – heavy sleeping, under production of a urine reducing hormone, and a failure of the brain to recognise a full bladder when asleep.


For parents, the concern is what to do for the best. If your child is producing too much urine, should you limit drinks? Unfortunately this doesn’t help, the brain steadfastly continues to send out the message to produce urine.


Should you lift during the night? No, because that doesn’t teach the child to wake on their own to the sensation of a full bladder.


Could medication help? Perhaps, but research has shown that the relapse to bedwetting is high when medication is ceased. Medication can also have side effects.


So what can you do?


For over 50 years research has shown that a bedwetting alarm is the most effective method of treatment. In fact, success rates have risen to the point where today up to 90% of children over the age of six using a hi-tech electronic alarm are cured of bedwetting within 3-5 months.


An alarm attaches to the shoulder of the child’s pyjamas and a moisture sensor to the pants, this triggers a loud ‘bleeping’ noise the instant urination starts, waking the child.


Over a short period of time, the child’s brain begins to associate the sound of the alarm, waking up, and the ‘need to wee’. Once this link is firmly established, the feeling of a full bladder is enough to wake the child, who can then control his bladder and use the bathroom.


Treatment can take from as little as two weeks to 3-5 months. Wet beds are rare after the first 2 weeks, as the child wakes to the alarm in time to stop his ‘wee’, enabling him to use the toilet.


Listening to your child gleefully shout out, ‘Mum, I didn’t wet the bed again!’ and watching your child’s self-esteem grow morning by morning as the bed remains dry is wonderful!


Alarms are used as the primary line of treatment by bedwetting clinics throughout the UK.


DRI Sleeper bedwetting alarms cost £39.99 from http://www.bedalarms.co.uk, a free email advice service is available to customers.


Written by Helen Finch, Director of Bedalarms.co.uk. For comprehensive advice on bedwetting, please visit our website.



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