Bedwetting

[Outside_333]

I'm a teenager and have been bedwetting since I was a baby but it makes me feel left out because I can't go on school holidays and sleep overs like the other kids. Do you have any suggestions on how to controller it?

[Stacey1723]

my teenage daughter wears adult nappies as do I as I too wet the bed

[lobarn01]

Hello, have you tried an enuresis alarm? Avoid black currant and fizzy drinks and ensure you drink at least 1.5 litres of water a day. Try this for at least 2 month

[halftime]

Hi Outside. How old are you now? Have you, with your parent/carer, ever been to discuss this with your GP and asked for a referral for more investigation? If not, do so.

Problems with wetting at night are usually a number of factors working together (or against each other, depending on how you look at it!).

My son is 15 and we first went to the GP when he was 6 saying he's still wet at night, and our own investigation told us it was generally 3 times a night, every night. Even doing that doesn't always get the right help, in the right order, right away. We were first sent to a bed-wetting clinic, lent an alarm for 3 months, but no-one examined him (or at least adequately) to realise he was really constipated (or maybe he was seen the day he HAD had a poo - who knows). The alarm was pointless - too early in the 'order' to be useful Anyway, he was 8 before a nurse at a bowel clinic we were referred to pointed out that he was really constipated. I was horrified that I hadn't realised. He had been going for a poo every day before he started school but that habit had slipped away and become less and less often with being at school and having to 'hold on' til he was averaging once every 4 or 5 days (probably saving it up for the weekend in truth).

Anyway, there is an order in which to tackle things in and drinking enough water (with most of it being early in the day), going for a poo every day and sitting there long enough to empty your bowel properly and emptying your bladder fully when you go for a pee is the start point.

You can be prescribed medicine to get poo moving every day if that is a problem (Movicol and/or senna, in my son's case). You can be prescribed medicine to synthetically mimic the hormone we should make when we sleep to limit urine production. My son is prescribed Desmomelts and takes part in sleepovers and school trips, without incident to date. We will be trying the alarm we have again soon, without desmomelts, to see if that will help him develop a night waking habit in place of a night wetting habit.

You need to get a referral from your GP and you will find it easier to control night time wetting and, hopefully, resolve it permanently eventually.

If you know all this already and have done all this already, then I am sorry to be repetitive.

[Stacey1723]

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