My son is a heavy sleeper and doensn't wake up to go to the bathroom what should I do with him?
No matter even if I wake up at night and take him he still manages to bed wet. He is only 5 years old. He also has accidents during the day. His Dr. says its normal for his age. I give him a deadline for drinking at night and I make him use the bathroom before he goes to bed but it never fails. What is the best way to handle him and the situation?
Answers:
take him to another doctor or get some pull up pants
overnight pants.that's why they make them for bigger kids
Time will improve matters. Check again when he;s eighteen.
keep him in huggies pullups till he stops or make him sleep on the toilet
Get him some pullups till he grows out of it, he will learn to have better control over his bladder.
use pull up pants for him on a night, he will grow out of it eventually, as for thro the day children often get so absorbed with playing that they often leave it too late to get to the toilet
Get some pullups. That way you dont have to do laundry every day. If he wets, he can throw it away in the morning. Boys have a harder time with the muscle to control urinating until they reach a certain age. Each boy is different. Just give it time and make sure he knows it is normal.
You could always post the question twice.
Seriously, put a small electric current on his bed. If he wets, a light shock should wake him up and stop the flow so to speak.
You might find site below of some help
http://www.pull-ups.com/na/sharingspace/.
same problem here! my daughter attended an enuresis clinic and had an alarm but she used to sleep through it and it woke the neighbours it was that loud! We went to the docs who gave her tablets called DESMOTABS, these dry up everything at night. Try giving him plenty to drink, a 2l bottle with his name on and make him hold it as long as he can. This will stretch his bladder so he more able to hold it at night.
Don't get too worried,some adults still wet their beds.he may grow out of it.
I wont worry about him, but if this persists after age of 9 or 10 , start worrying but more importantly doctors can prescribe nasal spray to help him then, until then persevere with what you are doing, he will bear the fruit of your patience, speak to health visitor she might teach you to use alarm bell technique,
You are doing all the things I was gonna suggest. Maybe getting him some pull ups for older children so that he isn't so embarrassed when he wets the bed. Just keep doing what your doing and he will eventually gain the bladder control over night and wake himself up if needed. My daughter did the same thing. I know its frustrating changing sheets every am, but the phase will pass soon enough. Good Luck and Take Care.
My daughters doctor gave her medication to slow her kidney function at night. It has worked for the most part. They gave her the medication starting between 5-6 years old. She is 7 now.
My son is 7 and still occasionally wets the bed, he also doesn't always wake up to go, although it is getting better. What I used to do is to take him to the loo just before I go to bed, say about 11pm, he would wake up just enough to wee but would fall asleep again as soon as I put him back to bed. It seemed to work.
Sticker charts are also good motivators especially if he sometimes has accidents during the day, I normally do a small chart, he loves seeing the stickers go on, and then when the chart is full he gets a little treat.
My Sister wet the bed until she was about 10. My daughters friend wets her bed and shes 9. Sometimes it just one of those things. He will grow out of it. Not that hearing that helps. He probably can tell your uptight which is making him uptight and he doesnt want to dissappoint you,.
I hope this helps.
this is a really hard one to tackle my son is 10 in December and still does it now and again, up until he was about 8 he used to do it nearly every night but then he started getting up to the toilet so it got less and less, which was good, i found that not making a fuss about it helped i would just say right help me take the dirty bedding off and put it in the wash don't make out that it is dirty or wrong and he will soon get the hang of it, in the mean time you could try those new pull ups called pyjama pants for bigger kids. good luck with all that you try and you will succeed.
First, ask yourself these questions:
Is there a family history of bed-wetting?
When does your child wet the bed? Is she very active, upset or under unusual stress when it happens?
Does your child tend to wet the bed after drinking carbonated beverages, caffeine, citrus juices or a lot of water?
Is there anything unusual about how your child urinates or the way his urine looks? It could be an infection.
Actually, one of the worst things you can do is wake him up to urinate in the middle of the night. His bladder is not yet developed enough to hold urine for a full night, and forcing him to urinate in the middle of the night could hinder development. When the doctor says he'll grow out it, that is usually the reason. In the mean time, line the bed with some sort of liquid resistant lining, or have him wear pull-ups to help out. Don't force or humiliate him. It doesn't help at all, he is already humilated himself.
Even though lots of parents don't discuss bed wetting, it is more common than you think.
I was a bedwetter when I was your sons age and its an awful feeling to wake up knowing you have had another accident!
I remember my mum being at her wits end. Seemingly I used to tell her that it wasnt me that had done it but the birds flew in the window and wet my bed!
My parents did exactly the same as you have done to help me but the one thing that stays in my mind is having to repeat over in my head as I was tucked in for the night,the words, I must not wet the bed. I would say it a few times before I fell asleep and it worked! Slowly but surely, I stopped!
Good luck.
My youngest daughter used to have this problem. I used to carry her to the toliet about midnight, wake her gently and put her on the toliet. She wakes up now and I accompany her. Be careful not to cut fluids down too much in case he gets an infection. Hope it helps.
First off, bedwetting is considered normal until about age 9-10 years.
Did the doc do a urinalysis? Did he refer you to a urologist? Did you have an ultrasound done? I would suggest that you consider those steps to rule out any medical problems with the plumbing.
The next thing I would suggest that you consider is chiropractic treatment and DHA supplements.
Our stuggle with enuresis
Keithen turned 7 years old in February and still wets the bed at night and sometimes has accidents during the day. Here is a little about our journey with enuresis.
When my son turned 5 he was bedwetting every night and having at least one, usually more, accidents each day. Our family doctor did a urinalysis to make sure he didn't have any infections or anything and that came back normal. He referred us to a urologist. The urologist put him on Ditropan. He also ordered an u/s. I filled the perscription and waited a bit, unsure if I wanted to give it to him. We decided to wait on the u/s, feeling pretty sure that this was not physical but instead a discipline one. (Didn't care if he was wet.wouldn't stop what he was doing to go.engrossed in play.we saw a pattern to when accidents happened.etc.)
That wasn't working so we tried the meds - I think we did a total of 3 doses of Ditropan. He HATED it. There was no pretty color or flavoring to it to make it palatable to kids. It smelled very strong and tasted nasty. The side effects were horrible. He would get dizzy and he fell asleep in the middle of the day. With the start of Kindergarten coming up soon, I felt the side effects were unacceptable. I didn't want him getting sleepy like that when he was in school and he was simply not himself on the medication. We stopped them - like I said I think we tried 3 doses. We struggled through the rest of the year on our own.
Around his 6th birthday, someone on the Mothering boards suggested chiropractic to me as a treatment for enuresis. We were open to the idea and decided it was worth a try. Through a network of local mothers, we found a chiropractor with special training in treating kids.
We started treatments 3 times per week. This did seem to help. The first time that he woke up dry, I honestly cried. I was so happy for him to see that he was making progress. And I was so relieved that maybe we had found an answer. At our next appointment I had to choke back tears of joy and relief as I told our chiropractor our good news. I even asked to give him a hug because I was so deeply grateful for the help he had given my son.
Shortly after staring treatment, he was waking up dry about once every two weeks - a huge accomplishment compared to how things had been! And his number of daytime accidents decreased. Around this same time we had a checkup with our family doc and with his urologist. We refused to try the meds again because of the side effects. We reported that the chiropractic treatment was helping and agreed to do an ultrasound. The ultrasound came back normal.
As his chiropractic scans got better and his accidents decreased, his visit frequency decreased. After a couple of months of chiropractic treatment, our chiropractor suggested that we try DHA supplements. These made a HUGE difference for us. This was probably the point that nighttime accidents went down to once a week or so. Daytime accidents at this point were reduced to ones that seemed undeniably behavioral (only wetting while playing on the computer). We were doing so much better!
You may wonder why the DHA supplements were recommended and how they help. Children with enuresis have increased levels of prostaglandin E2 and nitric oxide. Omega-3 fatty acids are known to inhibit the synthesis of prostaglandin E2 and renal nitric oxide. Bed-wetting children have an underdeveloped region of the brain that controles nighttime micturition (as noted by their inappropriate startle response). Omega-3 fatty acids play a critical role in the development of and function of the CNS including micturition control and startle response. Nations with the lowest prevalence of bed-wetting children consume more than double the fish/seafood as compared to the nations with the highest prevalence of bedwetting children.
A week before his 7th birthday, I was frustrated once again. He had backslid. He was no longer cooperating with taking his DHA and he was wetting the bed almost every night. (He still wears pullups to bed.) He had been having a daytime accident several days per week again. I still think those are mostly behavoral - tied in to computer/gameboy/etc. - activities where he is super focused. Chiropractic visits are now only once every 2 weeks as his body looks good, so I don't think the increase in accidents was due to a physical problem.
We have gone through periods of taking his Gameboy away waiting for him to go a week with no daytime accidents. A month after he turned 7, things seemed to be looking up. He was having occasional dry nights and was having more dry days than wet ones.
I think I do need to get him back on the DHA on a regular basis as the drop in the DHA levels in his body may be creating some of our problems (at least the night-time part). I may have to find ways to sneak it into his food if he continues to avoid taking the pills. We had to stop seeing the chiropractor back in April because we couldn't afford it anymore. He has definately regressed since then. :-( I wish we couldn afford to go back to regular adjustments.
In Kindergarten he only had 2 or 3 accidents at school all year long. Last year, in first grade, I think he had 2 or 3 accidents at school which were "giggle pees" when he was laughing too hard with a friend in gym class and at a class party. This year he has come off his bus wet once.but it's an hour long ride so if he forgets to go before getting on the bus he's in big trouble. I'm relieved that it hasn't been a big problem for him at school. I remember that my cousin was "that kid" in grade school who was always being sent to the class for clean clothes. I remember the stigma that it can carry to be the "stinky kid" who wets his pants. I am thankful that he doesn't seem to be dealing with that at school.
I hope our experience helps some other families out there who are struggling with this problem. I know I am eternally grateful that we found chiropractic and the DHA supplements to help our son instead of going the traditional medical route with the prescription drugs.
put him special uderwear a good brand is Goodnites this will prevent the wet sheets and cloths
1. don't worry
2. let him wear up pants at night
3. give him a teaspoon of honey - it helps stop bedwetting
4. your doctor is right, it is normal
5. never ever tell your son off, just tell him it doesn't matter or you risk making it worse and messing up his self esteem
6. remember boys are dry at night later than girls
Doctors don't normally see bedwetting a problem until after the age of 7. You are doing all the right things like restricting drinking and using the toilet before bed. You will just have to wait for the time to come. If it is still a problem after the age of 7, then it may well be a medical problem.
My son is 4 and has to wear pull ups at night. He too is such a heavy sleeper he wets and does not realise until the morning when I wake him. We have tried numerous occasions to let him wear just undies, but he will have few nights dry then wet again. It's hard because he has been dry during the day for nearly a year and never has an accident. I give little rewards for my son having a dry night, like being able to play with a special toy, sometimes they need an insentive!
I agree that boys are later developers than girls. I never had any problems with my daughter!
I was watching the news and they have come up with this new device. You attach it on to your child and when they need to go it sets this alarm and wakes you and them up. It might sound cruel in a way but it gets them in routine.
Remember the 2 'P's - Plastic sheets and Patience.
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Answers:
take him to another doctor or get some pull up pants
overnight pants.that's why they make them for bigger kids
Time will improve matters. Check again when he;s eighteen.
keep him in huggies pullups till he stops or make him sleep on the toilet
Get him some pullups till he grows out of it, he will learn to have better control over his bladder.
use pull up pants for him on a night, he will grow out of it eventually, as for thro the day children often get so absorbed with playing that they often leave it too late to get to the toilet
Get some pullups. That way you dont have to do laundry every day. If he wets, he can throw it away in the morning. Boys have a harder time with the muscle to control urinating until they reach a certain age. Each boy is different. Just give it time and make sure he knows it is normal.
You could always post the question twice.
Seriously, put a small electric current on his bed. If he wets, a light shock should wake him up and stop the flow so to speak.
You might find site below of some help
http://www.pull-ups.com/na/sharingspace/.
same problem here! my daughter attended an enuresis clinic and had an alarm but she used to sleep through it and it woke the neighbours it was that loud! We went to the docs who gave her tablets called DESMOTABS, these dry up everything at night. Try giving him plenty to drink, a 2l bottle with his name on and make him hold it as long as he can. This will stretch his bladder so he more able to hold it at night.
Don't get too worried,some adults still wet their beds.he may grow out of it.
I wont worry about him, but if this persists after age of 9 or 10 , start worrying but more importantly doctors can prescribe nasal spray to help him then, until then persevere with what you are doing, he will bear the fruit of your patience, speak to health visitor she might teach you to use alarm bell technique,
You are doing all the things I was gonna suggest. Maybe getting him some pull ups for older children so that he isn't so embarrassed when he wets the bed. Just keep doing what your doing and he will eventually gain the bladder control over night and wake himself up if needed. My daughter did the same thing. I know its frustrating changing sheets every am, but the phase will pass soon enough. Good Luck and Take Care.
My daughters doctor gave her medication to slow her kidney function at night. It has worked for the most part. They gave her the medication starting between 5-6 years old. She is 7 now.
My son is 7 and still occasionally wets the bed, he also doesn't always wake up to go, although it is getting better. What I used to do is to take him to the loo just before I go to bed, say about 11pm, he would wake up just enough to wee but would fall asleep again as soon as I put him back to bed. It seemed to work.
Sticker charts are also good motivators especially if he sometimes has accidents during the day, I normally do a small chart, he loves seeing the stickers go on, and then when the chart is full he gets a little treat.
My Sister wet the bed until she was about 10. My daughters friend wets her bed and shes 9. Sometimes it just one of those things. He will grow out of it. Not that hearing that helps. He probably can tell your uptight which is making him uptight and he doesnt want to dissappoint you,.
I hope this helps.
this is a really hard one to tackle my son is 10 in December and still does it now and again, up until he was about 8 he used to do it nearly every night but then he started getting up to the toilet so it got less and less, which was good, i found that not making a fuss about it helped i would just say right help me take the dirty bedding off and put it in the wash don't make out that it is dirty or wrong and he will soon get the hang of it, in the mean time you could try those new pull ups called pyjama pants for bigger kids. good luck with all that you try and you will succeed.
First, ask yourself these questions:
Is there a family history of bed-wetting?
When does your child wet the bed? Is she very active, upset or under unusual stress when it happens?
Does your child tend to wet the bed after drinking carbonated beverages, caffeine, citrus juices or a lot of water?
Is there anything unusual about how your child urinates or the way his urine looks? It could be an infection.
Actually, one of the worst things you can do is wake him up to urinate in the middle of the night. His bladder is not yet developed enough to hold urine for a full night, and forcing him to urinate in the middle of the night could hinder development. When the doctor says he'll grow out it, that is usually the reason. In the mean time, line the bed with some sort of liquid resistant lining, or have him wear pull-ups to help out. Don't force or humiliate him. It doesn't help at all, he is already humilated himself.
Even though lots of parents don't discuss bed wetting, it is more common than you think.
I was a bedwetter when I was your sons age and its an awful feeling to wake up knowing you have had another accident!
I remember my mum being at her wits end. Seemingly I used to tell her that it wasnt me that had done it but the birds flew in the window and wet my bed!
My parents did exactly the same as you have done to help me but the one thing that stays in my mind is having to repeat over in my head as I was tucked in for the night,the words, I must not wet the bed. I would say it a few times before I fell asleep and it worked! Slowly but surely, I stopped!
Good luck.
My youngest daughter used to have this problem. I used to carry her to the toliet about midnight, wake her gently and put her on the toliet. She wakes up now and I accompany her. Be careful not to cut fluids down too much in case he gets an infection. Hope it helps.
First off, bedwetting is considered normal until about age 9-10 years.
Did the doc do a urinalysis? Did he refer you to a urologist? Did you have an ultrasound done? I would suggest that you consider those steps to rule out any medical problems with the plumbing.
The next thing I would suggest that you consider is chiropractic treatment and DHA supplements.
Our stuggle with enuresis
Keithen turned 7 years old in February and still wets the bed at night and sometimes has accidents during the day. Here is a little about our journey with enuresis.
When my son turned 5 he was bedwetting every night and having at least one, usually more, accidents each day. Our family doctor did a urinalysis to make sure he didn't have any infections or anything and that came back normal. He referred us to a urologist. The urologist put him on Ditropan. He also ordered an u/s. I filled the perscription and waited a bit, unsure if I wanted to give it to him. We decided to wait on the u/s, feeling pretty sure that this was not physical but instead a discipline one. (Didn't care if he was wet.wouldn't stop what he was doing to go.engrossed in play.we saw a pattern to when accidents happened.etc.)
That wasn't working so we tried the meds - I think we did a total of 3 doses of Ditropan. He HATED it. There was no pretty color or flavoring to it to make it palatable to kids. It smelled very strong and tasted nasty. The side effects were horrible. He would get dizzy and he fell asleep in the middle of the day. With the start of Kindergarten coming up soon, I felt the side effects were unacceptable. I didn't want him getting sleepy like that when he was in school and he was simply not himself on the medication. We stopped them - like I said I think we tried 3 doses. We struggled through the rest of the year on our own.
Around his 6th birthday, someone on the Mothering boards suggested chiropractic to me as a treatment for enuresis. We were open to the idea and decided it was worth a try. Through a network of local mothers, we found a chiropractor with special training in treating kids.
We started treatments 3 times per week. This did seem to help. The first time that he woke up dry, I honestly cried. I was so happy for him to see that he was making progress. And I was so relieved that maybe we had found an answer. At our next appointment I had to choke back tears of joy and relief as I told our chiropractor our good news. I even asked to give him a hug because I was so deeply grateful for the help he had given my son.
Shortly after staring treatment, he was waking up dry about once every two weeks - a huge accomplishment compared to how things had been! And his number of daytime accidents decreased. Around this same time we had a checkup with our family doc and with his urologist. We refused to try the meds again because of the side effects. We reported that the chiropractic treatment was helping and agreed to do an ultrasound. The ultrasound came back normal.
As his chiropractic scans got better and his accidents decreased, his visit frequency decreased. After a couple of months of chiropractic treatment, our chiropractor suggested that we try DHA supplements. These made a HUGE difference for us. This was probably the point that nighttime accidents went down to once a week or so. Daytime accidents at this point were reduced to ones that seemed undeniably behavioral (only wetting while playing on the computer). We were doing so much better!
You may wonder why the DHA supplements were recommended and how they help. Children with enuresis have increased levels of prostaglandin E2 and nitric oxide. Omega-3 fatty acids are known to inhibit the synthesis of prostaglandin E2 and renal nitric oxide. Bed-wetting children have an underdeveloped region of the brain that controles nighttime micturition (as noted by their inappropriate startle response). Omega-3 fatty acids play a critical role in the development of and function of the CNS including micturition control and startle response. Nations with the lowest prevalence of bed-wetting children consume more than double the fish/seafood as compared to the nations with the highest prevalence of bedwetting children.
A week before his 7th birthday, I was frustrated once again. He had backslid. He was no longer cooperating with taking his DHA and he was wetting the bed almost every night. (He still wears pullups to bed.) He had been having a daytime accident several days per week again. I still think those are mostly behavoral - tied in to computer/gameboy/etc. - activities where he is super focused. Chiropractic visits are now only once every 2 weeks as his body looks good, so I don't think the increase in accidents was due to a physical problem.
We have gone through periods of taking his Gameboy away waiting for him to go a week with no daytime accidents. A month after he turned 7, things seemed to be looking up. He was having occasional dry nights and was having more dry days than wet ones.
I think I do need to get him back on the DHA on a regular basis as the drop in the DHA levels in his body may be creating some of our problems (at least the night-time part). I may have to find ways to sneak it into his food if he continues to avoid taking the pills. We had to stop seeing the chiropractor back in April because we couldn't afford it anymore. He has definately regressed since then. :-( I wish we couldn afford to go back to regular adjustments.
In Kindergarten he only had 2 or 3 accidents at school all year long. Last year, in first grade, I think he had 2 or 3 accidents at school which were "giggle pees" when he was laughing too hard with a friend in gym class and at a class party. This year he has come off his bus wet once.but it's an hour long ride so if he forgets to go before getting on the bus he's in big trouble. I'm relieved that it hasn't been a big problem for him at school. I remember that my cousin was "that kid" in grade school who was always being sent to the class for clean clothes. I remember the stigma that it can carry to be the "stinky kid" who wets his pants. I am thankful that he doesn't seem to be dealing with that at school.
I hope our experience helps some other families out there who are struggling with this problem. I know I am eternally grateful that we found chiropractic and the DHA supplements to help our son instead of going the traditional medical route with the prescription drugs.
put him special uderwear a good brand is Goodnites this will prevent the wet sheets and cloths
1. don't worry
2. let him wear up pants at night
3. give him a teaspoon of honey - it helps stop bedwetting
4. your doctor is right, it is normal
5. never ever tell your son off, just tell him it doesn't matter or you risk making it worse and messing up his self esteem
6. remember boys are dry at night later than girls
Doctors don't normally see bedwetting a problem until after the age of 7. You are doing all the right things like restricting drinking and using the toilet before bed. You will just have to wait for the time to come. If it is still a problem after the age of 7, then it may well be a medical problem.
My son is 4 and has to wear pull ups at night. He too is such a heavy sleeper he wets and does not realise until the morning when I wake him. We have tried numerous occasions to let him wear just undies, but he will have few nights dry then wet again. It's hard because he has been dry during the day for nearly a year and never has an accident. I give little rewards for my son having a dry night, like being able to play with a special toy, sometimes they need an insentive!
I agree that boys are later developers than girls. I never had any problems with my daughter!
I was watching the news and they have come up with this new device. You attach it on to your child and when they need to go it sets this alarm and wakes you and them up. It might sound cruel in a way but it gets them in routine.
Remember the 2 'P's - Plastic sheets and Patience.
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