Can someone give me some insight on ADHD and bed wetting? Our son is 5 1/2 and even if we don’t allow him to drink he still sets the bed. He is a big drinker through the day. Every once in a while he will go a few nights in a row and be dry but it is not very often.
He wants to go to a sleep over and doesn’t understand why I won’t let him. 
Hi there, I know what that's like. There is nothing really to be done. Try the techniques that you would use on your toddler when you first starting to potty train at the point where you took the pull up off for what seemed that last time.
Often it may be stress or anxiety or the laziness of not wanting get up. If he's wetting the bed frequently try waking him up through the night.
My grandson is 6 and still wets the bed occasionally, with the last being maybe about two months age, It seems to happen early in the morning just before waking him up for school and two or three times through the summer months.
Hopefully you have a little time to put a plan together before the sleep over.
You might want to check with DR because my son started wetting the bed and it ended up being a side effect of too high dosage.
Our 6 year old has only ever had a couple of dry nights. I’ve mentioned it to his dr and pediatrician and neither have been concerned. We tried the wake up approach as well but just made him angry and he’d refuse. We gave up the fight - can’t last forever, right?
The topic of sleepovers is hard because you don’t want to give them something else to get anxiety over if you tell them the real reason...
It’s nice to know we’re not alone in this.
Mine too. His OT said it could be from his retained reflexes. I can’t remember which one though... I thought that was interesting.
What is a 'retained reflex'? Thanks...
My daughter wet the bed four nights at week at least until she was eight. She has been dry for a year now. I decided at some point that I was not going to stress this issue. She wore a pull up till she was eight. Nighttime underwear’s . And we did not start sleepovers until she was nine. Now she has been dry for a year and goes to sleepovers Don’t worry he will stop eventually my pediatrician said it a a hormonal issue. And can also be adhd related. They say that adhd kids are about two years younger than their actually age.
The adhd brain matures later than normal. It’s still normal for average kids to bed wet until age 8. So be patient and wear pull ups if needed.
Bedwetting is common in children at this age, whether they do or don't have ADHD, although it is more common in the ADHD children. Management is the same whether ADHD is or is not present. Ask his regular doctor for details.
I just thought about this. Can he wear his pj's to the sleepover with a pull up type of thing already on and maybe discretely ask the parents of the friend if they could assist him in the morning with changing. When my Grandson had his sleepover here we weren't concerned enough to think that he could accidentally wet the bed, I guess because the wetting was so far and few in between. May be arrange the sleep over at your house first where you are able to oversee personal details.
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