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| | Posted on Monday, November 20, 2006 - 11:52 am: | |
Bed wetting is a common problem that affects 5-6 million children. At the age of 5 years, 15-20% of children are still wetting at night 2-3 times per month. At the age of 6 about 15% are still wetting and 10% of children over 7 year of age are still wetting. These rates go down only by about 15% per year without treatment. At the age of 15, about 1-2% of adolescents still wet at night.
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Narmin Parpia
| | Posted on Monday, April 03, 2006 - 10:44 pm: | |
The reason children wet at night is because they have to urinate AND there are a number of reasons that children have to urinate at night.
The reasons are:
• Their bodies have not transitioned to only needing to urinate during waking hours
• Their signal from their brain to wake us up to go potty has not fully matured
• They sleep too deeply to be awakened by this signal – this is referred to as “arousal dysfunction”.
• There is imbalance in the bladder muscles i.e. the muscle that contracts to squeeze the urine out is much stronger than the muscle that holds the urine in.
• The bladder is too small to hold the normal amount of urine
• They produce more urine than a normal size bladder can hold
• They drink too much before bed
• They may be consuming a diuretic substance such as chocolate or colas that increase the urine output
• Constipation can reduce bladder capacity.
• It could be a medical issue such as
i. diabetes
ii. urinary track infection (especially in girls)
iii. a hormonal imbalance.
iv. Sickle cell anemia
• Allergy to milk or other food sensitivities. |
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