Looking for an Effective Kind of Bedwetting Treatment

You cannot take for granted that a child will learn to control his bladder by the time he reaches five or so (we say "he" because there are three times as many boys who have this problem, as girls). One out of six 5 year olds  don't succeed in really acquiring the habit. Why, frequently, even 10-year-old children aren't reliably dry. They call the problem nocturnal inuresis, and it isn't anybody's fault. It isn't a parenting mistake that leads to this; or a lack of maturity or trying in the child. It can be genetic though. It's just something about the way the body develops slowly in many children. It may be important to find good bedwetting treatment for your child though, if  only for the reason that there is such a stigma attached to this problem.

It isn't just social embarrassment that should move you to look for a treatment. It isn't just the fact that a child will find it difficult to go spend a night at a friend's home or at camp this way. It is also that when anyone learns of this, they accuse the parents of poor parenting, and they accuse the child of mental problems and potential or criminal behavior later on in life.

Reliable bedwetting treatment is difficult though, if not impossible. Children who find it difficult to not wet their bed at night, simply lack a hormone that they are supposed to have. When you have the hormone, it just slows down your body's production of urine at night. In some other children, they just have a bladder that grows too slowly. It takes their bladders a few years to catch up. Most of this is hereditary.

Parents certainly should get their children checked out with a doctor to see if there are infections or other such problems that could be at the root of the problem. Some children could have painless urinary tract infection that could simply make it very difficult for them to hold anything in. In other cases, children with constipation can feel so much pressure on their bladder that the pressure becomes too much to take.

If a child simply takes too long to learn to hold it in, there are certain simple ways that a parent could elp. You could get a bedwetting alarm – that senses moisture and immediately sounds an alarm so that the child can wake up and stop peeing. Also effective is a simple alarm that simply wakes the child up twice every night so that he may go and try to pee.

There certainly are medicines like imipramine available that your child can take when he needs to go to a friend's house or to camp. But that's simple symptomatic medication, and it isn't meant to be taken on a regular basis.