Bedwetting teenager

[JenniferSee]

hello! I have three children. One is a teenager and the other two are 9 and 11 years old. All of them have dealt with bedwetting and bladder problems throughout their lives. Their father is not involved in their lives anymore, but both him and wet our beds growing up, but eventually grew out of it.

we have consistently told them that this is something they will grow out of. We have taken them all to the doctor in the past and they’ve never been able to find anything wrong with them. My teenage son is the one I’m the most worried about. He wet his bed until he was about nine years old and it stopped. About two years ago, it started back up again. It was always very light wetting so I was able to just have him wear a pad in his underwear and it took care of it.

Here lately he has been peeing through the pad and onto his clothes and the bed. I took him back to the doctor again and they’re still unable to find anything wrong with him other than he is a very deep sleeper. We have tried different alarms to wake him up, but he sleeps straight through them. I have mentioned the idea of him wearing some type of diaper or pull up to bed, but as a 17-year-old boy he refuses to do it. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance

[Susie23]

Hi, make him go to the toilet even if he doesn’t need it before bed. During the day when he is weeing get him to stop his wee mid wee and build up his pelvic floor muscles. (Possibly more excises for this on line) Pumpkin seeds help with bladder control.

[JenniferSee in reply to Susie23]

that’s what I’ve been having to do, but it hasn’t really helped. I can try the pelvic floor idea. That might work! The problem right now is that he’s peeing through his pads that he used to wear in his underwear that used to work. So now, I don’t know what to do because he’s soiling his clothes in bed almost every night. He is so resistant to wearing diapers/pullups

[Susie23 in reply to JenniferSee]

You said it stopped and then started again. Did anything change ? Might be worth looking in to. It could be a viscous circle of him worry about it and that making it worse. Maybe try not making a big thing about it and getting 3 sets of exactly the same bedding and just stripping it off and putting it in the wash everyday. Kids just want to feel safe and loved and as long as he knows you love him which you clearly do by reaching out on here then it might just stop eventually.