Babies are 4 years old, still wetting the bed, what to do? Babies are 7 years old and occasionally wet the bed, is this a disease? Parents do have a lot of doubts about children wetting beds.
Explore the causes of bedwetting in children
Pediatric enuresis, commonly known as "bedwetting", is one of the common diseases in children. Most children with pediatric enuresis do not have any urinary or neurological disorders, and some cases heal spontaneously as the child ages and strengthens. Some parents feel that although children's bedwetting is not very good, but it does not cause disease, they ignore treatment, the result is not only aggravated, but also seriously affect the psychological growth of children.
Chinese medicine believes that there are four reasons for bedwetting in children. First, because children are born with weak constitution and weak kidney qi, they often enuresis during sleep, and such children are more developmentally delayed. Second, because after a long illness, it is lost in recuperation, resulting in spleen and lung deficiency and urination dysfunction, so frequent urination is common. Third, because of the influence of disease, or eating disorders, resulting in damp heat in the body, liver dysfunction, then often the amount of urine each time is not much, but accompanied by a fishy odor. Fourth, because of the abnormal coordination of the heart and kidneys, it leads to bedwetting in sleep and restless sleep.
The pediatrician summarizes the common causes of bedwetting in children:
1. Environmental changes. Before kindergarten, the baby has been accompanied by mom and dad to sleep, and during the kindergarten nap, only the baby takes care of himself, and the new environment may make it difficult for babies who rely on their parents to adapt, resulting in bedwetting.
2. Psychological factors. Babies are frightened in kindergarten or watch stressful movies before going to bed, or see parents arguing at home, resulting in overexcitement, nervousness, and poor sleep caused by bedwetting.
3. Overwork. Because the baby is playful or physically tired, it is easier to enter the sleep state, and it is not easy to wake up after deep sleep, even if there is a desire to urinate, it does not know how to get up to go to the toilet.
4. Disease factors. Urinary tract infections, malformations, and diseases such as spina bifida, meningocecal bulge, pinworm disease, and epilepsy can all cause enuresis.
5. Other factors. The baby is subjected to corporal punishment and reprimands after wetting the bed; unreasonable living habits and work and rest time, or climate change, excessive drinking water before going to bed, and lazy to go to the toilet at night can increase the number of enuresis times for the baby.
Parents who wet the bed should not scold
Some mothers often blame the baby in a harsh tone because the baby wets the bed, which is not only difficult to improve the baby's bedwetting, but also increases the baby's mental burden.
For babies who already have certain cognitive abilities, long-term enuresis may make them form an inferiority complex, so they are reluctant to interact with classmates, and they will also show worries and other emotions before going to bed, affecting sleep.
When parents know that the baby wets the bed, they should ask the baby the reason for wetting the bed, if it is because of emotional tension, dare not go to the toilet at night, or are too lazy to go to the toilet at night, they should be understood and correctly guided, and it is not a good habit to educate the baby to wet the bed. If the baby wets the bed because of physical reasons, tell the baby that this can be cured, do not leave a psychological shadow for the baby, after all, bedwetting also makes the baby feel embarrassed.
Small methods of treatment
For young children, you can try to use the ridge pinching method to adjust the yin and yang, and the internal organs, and cultivate the yuan qi to prevent bedwetting. The method is: let the baby lie on the bed, the parents half-clench their fists with both hands, two index fingers against the back of the spine and then with the thumbs of both hands to the front of the index finger, pinch the skin, and then the index finger forward, the thumb follows, both hands move forward at the same time, starting from the long strong point, along the sides of the vein with pinching, pressing, taking, pushing, twisting, with lifting, with the release, until the large vertebral acupuncture for 1 time, so pinch 12 times. The 7th time began to use the "pinch three mention one" method, pinch three times, lift up, focus on pinching the bladder Yu, kidney Yu, increase the amount of stimulation, and hear the sound of the best effect. Treatment is given once a day, and 10 sessions is 1 course.
For older children, encouraging behavioral training, making a register of the number of bedwettings, and rewarding progress can be used, which is more feasible for enuresis treatment.
Source: Chinese Dictates
