6 year old bed wetter?
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this is very very normal. just keep the pull ups on him till he out grows it. if he is still having problems at 9 then see a doctor. dont put him on any meds, these often have bad side efects that the doctors never tell you about. beleve me i know, i used to take some of those meds. and dont limit drinks to much, this causes dehydration and can make it worse.
Try not to give him anything to drink for 2-3 hours before bed and make sure he goes to the bathroom before he heads off to bed. Take him to the Dr. to rule out any medical problems.
hey this is funny because i had the same problem until i was like 12!! all you can do is make sure he went potty before he goes to bed and then wait it out... he'll grow out of it eventually... maybe even set an alarm for yourself like at 3 a.m to check on him and ask if he has to go...
Nothing to drink for an hour and half before bed. Have him go to the bathroom right before bed and maybe if you know about what time at night he wets set an alarm clock to awaken him before the incidence occurs.
If there is nothing physically wrong, it's probably just because he is a real sound sleeper or his bladder has not caught up with the rest of his body. Limit drinks in the evening. He will grow out of it.
He is six, it is not unusually for six year old children to wet their bed. Praise him when he doesn't do it. When he does, don't yell, just let him clean himself up. So he recognized that when he wet the bed he has to take another shower, take the sheets off his bed, pick out additional clothes.and all the thing necessary. Don't do it for him. He should know that it fine when that happens but it is his responibilty to clean up his mess. This is gonna suck for you b/c he is gonna be running late for school sometime. but I think it is important for children to take ownership. He will probably hate all the additional duties in the morning that he will make an extra contious effort do discontinue wetting the bed.
This can be normal up to about age 9-10 years. Have you talked to his doctor about it? You might want to get a referal to a urologist and have urinalysis and an ultrasound done to make sure everything is in working order. You might also want to consider trying chiropractic treatment and DHA supplements.
Here is my son's story, written earlier this year.
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. This 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. He's had a couple of accidents this year in 2nd grade as well. 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.
my son also is a 6 yr old bed wetter. I have had him tested and for me he has an underdeveloped bladder. We have medicine that we take nightly. the other thing is try stopping his drinking after a certain time. One other thing that is a pain is to wake up in the middle of the night and get him up to go.
Don't stress yourself out from what I understand some kids just go through this they'll grow out of it.
hey he's only 6 most kids do wet there bed untill they r 7 or 8 and then when they r between 12 and 18 so there is nothing wrong or take him to the docter.
Its ok, I wet til I was 13 and my grandfather did til he was 18. The all of a sudden one day it just went away. He might be a sound sleeper and not feel the urge to go. I always woke up when I was wet. It is so common. Dont set an alarm you might mess up his sleep patern if he has to get up early in the morning. limit fluids stop them 3 to 4 hours before bed time. If drinking water that will make him go faster than if he drank milk. It will stop when his body matures. Dont yell at him you will just make it happen more frequent because he will go to bed worried. He can't control it. A small percentage of kids wet because they are alergic to dairy products. Have him checked for that. Ask your parents someone else must of had the problem in the family..
This is very common! He should not be made to feel ashamed of it! Usually this is due to a bladder that is not fully developed, and he has no control of it! This usually happens more with boys then girls! My Husband was a bed wetter until he was 12! He will grow out of it.
Bed wetting is the most frustrating thing. There are medications, none of them worked for my son. At the age of 6 I doubt that would be the first step. Try limiting drinks after supper or waking him up to go. I tried all that and nothing. So, if that doesn't work then you can try to live with it and hope that he grows out of it. Or go see your doctor, hopefully your doctor will listen. I am still trying to figure it out and my boy is 11. GOOD LUCK
My son will be 6 in two weeks and still has this problem and like yours, does'nt seem to feel ashamed. So I ask his Pediatrician. She said that boys bladder develops slow so she sugested a ultrasound in a year if he still has the problem just to make sure he does'nt have a hiper active bladder.
One thing I do and helps alot is not let him drink any liquids after 7:00pm. Always make sure he goes to the bathroom before he goes to sleep and wake him up at about 10:00pm so that he can go potty again. Usually if I forget to get him at 10:00pm, he will wet the bed but if I do he never does.
Talk to his doctor just incase and good luck!
i have my 6 years old right now and fortunately i don't have that problem anymore...and luckily that was since he was 3 years old...i want u to try this if this could work out for him.at night after dinner no more liquids for him,don't give him anything like water,juice or even milk or if he like some try to bring him in the washroom to pee.and most of all tell him to pee before going to bed...i hope this could work for you...good luck.
my son is 10 and he still wets at nite our dr told us to watch hi sugar intake past about 6pm or 3 hrs before bedtime make sure he has none after that also there is a medication to give them that will help him i cant remeber the name of it but ask your dr about it some will tell you not to put him on it because there is a slight chance of liver damage if on it for 3 yrs or more but my son took it and when he did he NEVER wet but once i took him off it it started again but he also sneeks drinks before he goes to bed because i wont let him have anything
i think most six yearold go through this so be supportive and dont punish him comfort him instead
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