Do your children wet their beds a lot when they are in elementary school? Have you ever scolded a child because your child wetting the bed? Do you think that children wetting the bed is normal and that it will be good to grow up?
Under normal circumstances, most children can control nocturnal urination around 2-3 years old, if children aged 5 and older still wet the bed frequently, it is manifested by the fact that the child cannot wake up from sleep at least 2 times a week on average and unconscious urination occurs, and if it lasts for more than 3 months, it may suffer from childhood enuresis.
Enuresis in children, commonly known as "bedwetting". According to statistics, about 16% of 5-year-old children, 10% of 7-year-old children and 5% of 11-12-year-old children suffer from enuresis, and about 2%-3% will continue until adulthood. Surveys show a prevalence of up to 1.7% among people aged 16-18 years.
Enuresis in children can affect not only the child's health and growth and development, but also the child's mental health and IQ level. How much does enuresis hurt your child?
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Affects the growth and development of children
Enuresis will not only affect the quality of sleep in children, but also affect the growth and development of children, long-term bedwetting will lead to a slow loss of nutrients in the body, lack of sleep will affect the secretion of growth hormone, may lead to short children. The World Health Organization survey shows that bedwetting children are 2-5 cm shorter than normal children.
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Affects the child's intelligence
If the enuresis problem cannot be effectively solved, it will also lead to a decrease in the child's attention, poor memory, slow response, and affected brain development, resulting in a low IQ.
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Affects the child's mental health
Parents may not know that bedwetting is the third most traumatic event for children, after parental divorce and quarrels. Children who wet the bed because of the blame of their parents and even the shame of their peers, resulting in children's self-esteem and self-confidence are frustrated, depression, isolation, anxiety and other bad emotions, which seriously affect the development of mental health, and may also affect the child's normal interpersonal skills in the long run. The study found that children with enuresis experienced significantly higher rates of sadness, anxiety and social phobia than children without enuresis, and that 65 percent of these children were "unhappy" with enuresis.
Warm tips: Children's enuresis is a common developmental behavioral disease, parents should improve cognition, timely medical treatment, standardized treatment can help children get rid of the dilemma of bedwetting.
Therefore, if your child is still wetting the bed, please do not blame the child, to understand that bedwetting is not the child's fault, he is really not deliberately naughty, take him to the early diagnosis, scientific treatment, in order to help the child regain the confidence to smile.