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What's going on with my child wetting the bed? Grow up? Or does the child drink too much water?

author:Director of Pediatrics Qu Fengyuan

I believe that many mothers have worried about their children's bedwetting, but some babies have been bedwetted until they are 7 or 8 years old. Not only do children suffer, but they also bring a lot of worries to parents. So what happens when a child wets the bed so often? It is that the child is not yet fully developed, and it is good to grow up; Or the child drinks too much water and sleeps too deeply; Or maybe the child hasn't developed good habits...

What's going on with my child wetting the bed? Grow up? Or does the child drink too much water?

Bedwetting is a common thing for children, which child has not wet the bed? But as the child gets older, bedwetting continues to occur, which is a bit abnormal.

Bedwetting is medically known as "nocturnal enuresis." Generally speaking, children can control urination at night around the age of 1, and bedwetting has been greatly reduced. However, some children still wet the bed frequently at night after reaching the age of 2 or even 2 and a half years old, which is still a normal phenomenon. If bedwetting often occurs after the age of three, then parents should pay attention.

The mature stage of the nervous system in which the child controls urination should be around the age of 5 years. In fact, children can control urination by the age of 3 to 4 years old, and most children over 5 years old do not wet the bed. Early diagnosis and treatment of enuresis are conducive to the recovery and cure of children.

What's going on with my child wetting the bed? Grow up? Or does the child drink too much water?

Pediatric enuresis has a relatively good prognosis. Therefore, if the child has problems in this regard, parents should take the child to the hospital for diagnosis as soon as possible. Many comorbidities or complications of enuresis will bring about some psychological diseases, and as the duration of enuresis is prolonged or the course of the disease is prolonged, more and more children with psychological disorders occur. Therefore, early diagnosis and standardized treatment are particularly important.

Children's night enuresis will make parents very troubled, every night to worry about calling the child to get up at night, the child pee also needs to change the bedding. But when parents learn that they don't know, children are actually more painful than adults, and the impact of bedwetting on children is also huge.

And the child wets the bed, the parents generally blame the child, the child will feel deep guilt. It is easy for children to form introverts, sensitivity, timidity, inferiority psychology, resulting in personality defects, and will affect the growth of children, appear short, thin or fat figure.

What's going on with my child wetting the bed? Grow up? Or does the child drink too much water?

Long-term bedwetting in children will also affect brain development, resulting in poor memory, inattention, hyperactivity, slow response and other symptoms, resulting in a decrease in IQ and a decline in academic performance. Not only that, as we age, puberty also affects the development of children's secondary sexual characteristics and affects life after adulthood.

In addition to drug treatment, parents should first help their children develop good living habits, live regularly, avoid excessive fatigue and mental tension during the day, it is best to take a nap, sleep on time, avoid excessive excitement before going to bed, do not watch panic movies and television and play computers, do not do strenuous activities, too tease, so as not to overexcite the brain and promote bedwetting at night. Develop the habit of urinating before bedtime and encourage your child to be responsible for bedwetting.

In addition, it is also necessary to go to a regular hospital in time, train bladder function and motivate behavioral intervention treatment or drug therapy under the guidance of a doctor, and adhere to the implementation of the treatment plan, and pediatric enuresis can be effectively cured.

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