Help with getting a 7 year old to stop wetting bed?
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ok, this is still normal for him to do, bedwetting does not become a real problem till the teen years. i know, i am a 17 year old bedwetter. the doctors never found any thing wrong and say that i have a small bladder, and that one day it will catch up. untill then i wear diapers at night. get your son some goodnites pants and dont make it a big deal.
Sounds like you're doing the right things. Be patient. My 10-yr-old (who has Asperger's Syndrome) still wears a GoodNight to bed every night and wets it about half the time. It's no skin off my back (as long as it doesn't leak). Make sure you don't buy the store brand; they leak. Keep the plastic on the mattress just in case. Teach him how to wash the sheets so he'll understand your inconvenience, but try not to express anger. He will grow out of it, and he's not doing it on purpose.
Do mention it to his pediatrician. He may want to evaluate the problem.
You should schedule potty times for him. Before bed. And limit the amount of fluid he drinks 2 hours before bed time.
If it keeps happening you might want to take him to his pediatrician in case there is a bigger underlying problem.
Sometimes children get caffeine products. They're great for quenching the thirst but it eliminates their ability to absorb the liquid, thus causing increased quantities of urine. Not saying your child gets caffeine products, but it is one of the biggest causes of bed wetting.
make child go to the bathroom before bed. limit drinks 2 hours before bed. make child wear pullups until child stays dry at night time
I've heard cranberry juice can help bed wetting if you give the child a glass of it before bed. I've never tried it, but it may be worth a try. It sound like you are doing every thing right so far tho. Good luck
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It's also very normal up to age 9 or so.
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Like I said before, this is very normal. Frustrating, but normal. Have you taken him to the doctor about it? I'd suggest you get a referal to a urologist and get a urinalysis and an ultrasound done. You might also want to consider chiropractic treatment and DHA supplements.
Here is my son's story -
Our stuggle with enuresis
Keithen turned 7 years old in February (so he's almost 8 now) 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, in second grade, he has come off the bus wet once. He has an hour long ride, so if he forgets to go at the end of the day he's out of luck. 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 pees when he laughs, the doctor says that some children's bladders are not strong enough until teen yrs. He suggested when my son pees, to stop and go and stop and go, to strength the muscles. I hope this helps a bit?!
Little kids learn to get up at night eventually. Some kids just sleep so deeply that the urge to use the bathroom doesn't wake them. A pull up is a good idea. Another would be for you to set your alarm & get him up every 4hrs & take him to the bathroom. If he's already wet by that time then get him up sooner. Be careful Hon, if you make this into a big deal & make him think he's doing a bad thing, you could really hurt him emotionally. It is absolutely normal for some kids to wet the bed for quite some time. Every kid is different & they all mature at their own rate.Try to help him understand this too. He doesn't like waking to a wet bed any more than you do. You may also want to take him to the dr to rule out any physical problems. Hope this helps.
the thing that worked for me.. dont let them drink anything for 2 hrs. before bed.. like if bedtime is 9pm.. stop giveing drinks at 7 pm.. my son did the same tihng.. and i did that..it worked for me.. good luck!
I think what you are doing is good. It sounds like your doing everything right. Just be sure that you don't let him drink anything before bedtime. And make sure he goes to the bathroom before bed. I'm sure you are probably doing that. I usually go to bed about 3-4 hours after my kids. It might work if you got him up to go to the bathroom when you go to bed. I would only do that if you thought that he would go right back to sleep though. Good luck, and be patient with him. It's really not uncommon for a 7 year old to wet the bed, and he's not doing it on purpose.
my 8 year old still wets the bed sometimes. im not very concernedjust use pull ups.
Tell him that big boys use the potty, and that if her ever needs to go thats it okay to get outta bed. If you give a flashlight to use for when he has to go, that might help too. and, Like everone else said, dont give him and drinks before bed
take him to the doctor i was like him at that age turns out i had weak muscels around my tummy and bladder i was on medication and got it fixed
I have a nephwe who is autistic and was still wetting the bed at age 10 there is this really cool product, not sure of the name, but it is an alarm what you do is put two pairs of underware on the child in between the two pairs you put this device (It is very small)
as soon as the child starts to pee(it only takes a drop), the alarm sounds waking the child up, beacuse the chils is startled awake, they stop urinating. It actually works. Here is a link that may be helpful.
http://www.bedwettingstore.com/...
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