bed wetting?

Well, I suppose you could try alarms or medication, but they're not that reliable. I have a 10 year old son and 6 year old twin boys, all of whom wet the bed. At night, they just wear Goodnites. In the morning, they take the wet ones off, throw them in the trash, and get on with their day. It's very easy, and you can just do it until your son outgrows it.

My son was never dry until we started him on an Enuresis Programme through the Children's Hospital (Melbourne). The kids cannot go onto the programme until they are 8 yo and a doctor has ruled out other factors.

Essentially he had a journal that he had to keep daily, a check sheet really.

An alarm (mat) was put under his sheet - it sets off a bell in the bedroom when it comes in contact with moisture. This wakes them up, the kid finishes his toiletting in the toilet and then has to change his sheets, wipe down the mat and reset the alarm. The purpose is to wake the child 'as soon as' he has wet thus forming a new habit in the brain connecting 'wetting with waking'. Previously my son never woke up and sometimes he was sooo wet that head to foot he'd be covered in urine and not know it. He would also wet through pull ups and wouldn't know til the morning.

The first couple of nights he didnt' wake to the alarm (but I did) but then he started to recognise it and was able to do what he needed to do (take responsibility for his bed wetting by changing sheets etc).

After a full week he was dry, first time ever. He has not wet the bed since and it's been a full year since he first went on the programme. There is a high success rate and it's certainly worth trying!

Good luck!

ps...advice given to us when son was on the programme was NOT to restrict fluids before bed because it's not about the bladder being empty and remaining so throughout the night (which doesn't happen anyway!) but about the brain waking the body to empty the bladder when it is full.

My son is 8 and has been wetting the bed since he was 5. The first things that we tried were:

no drinks hour and a half before bed

waking him up in the middle of the night to go pee

have him do this exercise where he starts to pee and have him stop and then start again and repeat ( this stregthens their bladder)

limit milk(enzyme in it helps produce urine)

always have him help change the sheets

We did all of this and still continue with these but it wasn't enough so i took him to his pediatrician and he wrote a prescription for DESMOPRESSIN ACET .2MG this medicine stops the production of urine when taken at bedtime. The only thing that you have to look out for is your little boy still drinking liquids after he's taken it. Too much liquids after this medicine is taken can cause swelling, because the body has stopped producing urine. There have been fewer wet nights we still have at least 1 a week.

I hope this helps.

I'm speaking from personal experience here, make sure he

k nows you love him/her, dont make him/her feel guilty the morning after, don't make him/her feel odd, ie not normal. It's highly likely there is nothing biologically wrong, as with myself

I was made to feel very unusual and not normal. Exercises in drinking less fluid, putting a 2 sheets of metal in my bed to create an alarm when it happened all did no good what so ever.

Take it from me once I left my parents house in my early 20's having wet the bed almost every night of my life. I never did it again. I'm now 49. I some how think there maybe a a lesson in there somewhere.

Good luck and sorry if I've gone of on one on a totally unrelated reason

Here are some tips:

1. Don't let him drink water an hour before bedtime.

2. Until he stops, make him or her wear a diaper thing that you can get at pretty much and store

I have a soource that i was looking at for you but i am sure that you will have better luck!

BE HAPPY

~maddie

Check for allergies. My son did the same thing and when I mentioned it to the pediatrician we tested him for allergies. He was allergic to dairy products. Once we got that under control, he no longer wet the bed. Good luck.

I would visit the Doctor he may have a problem holding his bladder, and meds. may be needed. Also no drinks after 7 PM, and stand firm on that and see if it might help.

Maybe try looking at the bazillion other questions posted on this topic before asking another one. Those probably have some useful answers.

i used to have this same problem

no water after eight

and pee before bed

if not go to the doctor they have some medicine and different techniques

does he keep him hand in a bowl of warm water each night lol wow sry i have NO idea about that i guess u could make him wear diapers or you could make him use the rest room right before bed i dont know