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bedwetting questions 10yo boy
I have a 10yo son who struggles with bedwetting all his life. Until a
couple of years ago, he wet every night and wore GoodNites, and didn't mind. Then he starts saying they wasn't comfortable and he wants to quit wearing them. So we got one of those bedwetting alarms, and it helped. He was dry several weeks with the alarm and then he stopped using it, and was dry for a couple of more months. Then he starts having accidents again about twice a month. He tried the alarm a few times since that initial time, and it helps for a couple of months but then the accidents start up again. We don't get mad at him about the accidents. He tried DDVAP for camp, but I don't think it worked, he had a couple of accidents at camp even on the medication. (His camp handles bedwetting nicely, the counsellors washed and replaced his sheets while the kids was out of the bunk and nobody never said anything bad to him about it.) So, I got 3 questions about this: 1) The alarm got him down from accidents every day to a couple a month. Is there anything else he can do to take the final step to no more accidents? 2) We had a streak last week where he wet 4 days out of 5. This is way more than usual for him. Since then he's been dry 3 nights. Any ideas what could of cause that kind of thing? 3) When a boy hits puberty and if he's still wetting the bed, if he has a wet dream will he be able to tell that it isn't pee? thankyou, Leandra |
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Louise wrote in message . ..
On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 17:59:40 EST, (Leandra) wrote: 2) We had a streak last week where he wet 4 days out of 5. This is way more than usual for him. Since then he's been dry 3 nights. Any ideas what could of cause that kind of thing? Stress. Overtiredness. Illness. Drinking milk in the evening or otherwise having a lot of dairy products late in the day. Anything else that means he's sleeping very deeply those nights. thanks for your thoughts. Was wondering about stress because his teacher was out for a week (planned) but then the expected sub had a death in the family and was also out, so all plans and schedules went out the window, but the streak started before all the stress, maybe just a coinsidence, also there might be a vicious cycle of stress if peeing the bed causes stress, which it does. If it hadn't of stopped when it did, which was on a weekend, I would of brought him to the doctor to get checked for any physical reason that could of caused it. He wasn't sick or having extra dairy at those times. we found chocolat might increase accidents for him too, but that was not the culprit this time. thanks, Leandra |
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bedwetting questions 10yo boy
For our boys not allowing any dairy products after lunch *instantly*
cured bed wetting. Someone told me about this one, and I was cynical, but then my laundry loads were drastically reduced. It may or may not be a causative factor with your child, but I'd beg you to give it a shot. It's a cheap test. 1 week, no milk after lunch, and see if you have more dry nights than usual. Good luck, Sandi Jones |
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bedwetting questions 10yo boy
Sandi Jones wrote in message ...
For our boys not allowing any dairy products after lunch *instantly* cured bed wetting. Someone told me about this one, and I was cynical, but then my laundry loads were drastically reduced. It may or may not be a causative factor with your child, but I'd beg you to give it a shot. It's a cheap test. 1 week, no milk after lunch, and see if you have more dry nights than usual. Thankyou for that suggestion. We have experimented with alot of different diet suggestions in the past including no milk but unfortunately we never found any diet that make a difference for my son. Thanks, Leandra |
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bedwetting questions 10yo boy
In article ,
lili today, who knows tomorrow? wrote: Rule out any organic cause with your paediatric urologist, please! WEll of course we have already ruled out pathological causes in general many years ago. But the cuase is "organic" (as opposed to psychoological). It is caused by low levels of antidiaretic hormone (ADH) combined with deep sleep. ADH helps reduce urine when sleeping, which is why most adults don't have to pee in the middle of the night. For some kids with low ADH but that are light sleepers, they don't end up being bedwetters because they wake up when they need to pee and go to the bathroom. But since my son has had an increase in his frequency of bedwetting during the past 6 weeks we have asked his doctor whether any new physical cause may be contributing to the problem and we have a referral for a pediatric urologist but unfortunately it takes along time to get an appointment. Bedwetting at his age can have psychiatric indications later on. Male bedwetters can end up with psychosomatic sexual dysfunctions. Do you have any reference on that? If all clear, his urologist may recommend taking a higher protein, lower processed carbohydrate intake. Without enough proteins and too much sugar in the blood (white bread, white rice, pasta etc turn to sugar quickly in the blood overloading it) the bladder weakens and spasms at night, and after a sugar drop, he is likely to sleep through any disturbances in the night. Do you have any reference on *that*? that is a theory that I haven't heard yet and I have heard quite alot in these past 5 or so years of doing research on this issue to help my son. I strongly suggest you spend whatever you have to in order to rule out any organic cause. It will be worth putting off the family vacation for a while, or to go without cable for a few months, for your son's mental and physical health in later years. If you have an HMO and they refuse to refer your son to a urologist, then please save up and give him the gift of a visit to a qualified paediatric urologist? I can aford a urolgist apointment just fine thankyou and I don't appreciate your assumptions or the lecture on priorities. We have always put our children's medical and other needs first. And as I say we are waiting to see ours because of the change in our son's pattern has made us concerned. But I think you overestimate the harm to my sons mental health (and other boys his age) from his bedwetting. It is treated matter of factly by us and on sleepovers and even overnight camp, he has had no teasing or bad feelings because of this. My son *and his friends* understand that this is a medical condition that he can't control. There are lots of kids that are bedwetters that can't be fixed by a change in the diet or anything and they are not all doomed to poor mental and physical health. MOst of them out grow it eventually and grow into normal healthy adults. I don't think there is any need for your doo m and gloom additude. Leandra |
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