So what if it is, it’s a serious problem for the child that suffers it and can seriously destroy self esteem. No harm giving parents a source of info

The stigma attached to bed wetting as a child should be removed. Its very common and apart of growing up. Did it myself and not ashamed of it.

I wet the bed, my dad wet the bed, my brother wet the bed and my 1 son wets the bed, his 5. I don’t make a big deal out of it it’s not a big deal I put a protector on the bed and don’t make any harsh coments if he does wet the bed, I tell him not to worry Mammy will have everything sorted and give him hugs n kisses. He can stay dry some nights and I say oh no wee wees today ruffle his hair and give him hugs and kisses.

My daughter started wetting the bed at 7 turned out she was diabetic. Since she has been on insulin she hasn’t wet the bed.

I heard a story about an orphanage. To stop the children weting the bed they used to wake them up at 3am to go to the toilet and it didnt matter if they wanted to go or not.

Bedwetters of all ages suffer more then their parents or pediatrician may know. Embarrassment often leads to silence. Children as young as five often live with feelings of fear of discovery, shame, low self-esteem, and feeling different.

Bedwetting is not anyone’s fault; our findings point to a deep sleep that prevents the brain from responding to the bladder’s signal. This is a compromised, unhealthy sleep that can also result in daytime symptoms; difficulty awakening, fatigue, memory difficulty, irritability, difficulty concentrating.

Parents naturally turn to their GP or pediatrician seeking information regarding their child’s bedwetting problem around five or six. Often the “Medical Advice” is to wait: Hearing “don’t worry, they will outgrow it”. Why is this the right advice? While the child waits, the enuresis can remain and additional symptoms can result. Sadly, there is No guaranteed that someone will outgrow bedwetting, in fact after the age of seven, it is less likely. One in fifty teenagers continue wetting the bed. Medical professionals rarely share that possibility.

The person feels different, burdened by shame and secrecy. An enuretic person (child, teenager or adult) does not see his/her bed as a place of rest; instead it is a place they will repeatedly fail.

Rewarding a child for a dry night only brings confusion and gives everyone the impression that the child has some control over the night wetting. Psychological counseling has not been proven to end bedwetting.

Dr. Lyle Danuloff, clinical psychologist and staff consultant for The Enuresis Treatment Center, states “The only way to end bedwetting successfully is to recognize that the bedwetting problem is a SYMPTOM resulting from a genetically determined and transferred deep sleep disorder. Until the underlying sleep disorder is addressed, a child, teenager or adult will continue to wet the bed. They will suffer from the psychological distress that the disorder can cause.

For more information, please visit our website http://www.nobedwetting.com

Regards,
Barbara Moore

Bedwetting.ie is a website sponsored by drug company Ferring Pharmaceuticals. They manufacture a drug called Desmopressin which is used off-label to treat primary enuresis in children. I say off-label as the IMB have deemed the drug unsafe for treatment of this condition.
As a mother of 4 dealing with this issue I was interested to read this article and clicked through to the website which I noticed had a strong slant to medicating children which runs against most other current advice. I think the fact that the research was sponsored by a drug company should have been clearly stated in the article and not doing so is irresponsible journalism. Btw, I am not a medical professional and I found this information in a few minutes with google.

Am I the only one that doesn’t think bed wetting is that embarrassing? I can understand if it happens in school but in the comfort of your own home? I think the only thing that makes it overly awkward is the way people talk about it. It’s a phase, and if the child is embarrassed reassure them that’s it’s normal.

I used to let my little brother sleep in the top bunk when we were kids until he done this. Eeeewwww!

Is this an article or an advertisement for bedwetting.ie?

I was told bed wetting in adults can be a sign of childhood sexual abuse.
Is this true

perhaps if the general … ‘society’ (if you could call it that, what with all the foreign influences from being ruled and administered in a commonwealth-language &c.) ‘society’….. could acknowledge that bed-wetters are ‘handicapped individuals’: that is, individuals with a severe disability.
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And that they, as wetter-of-themselves (even when the visit their friends’ houses; and the smell and the piss everywhere &c.) deserve all the (otherwise granted) rights that are given to the other handicaps, the incapacitated disabled and otherwise senile idiot/lunatic members-of-society living in the shut-off “homes” (who also wet themselves) that (if we are to believe the bill of rights) are all “equal”.
Well: if they are all “equal” … then let the Tain leader come forward and admit that he too was a bed-wetter,
or that he was not one. Ever.
And let its mother come forward to testify thereto. After all, if the smell of piss is enough to have one estranged from its own (Irish) family & nation –as an adult–; then why not also for the Tain or the Taoish when they did precisely that as ‘mere infants’ (or indeed yet-to-be self-soilers, when théy inherit the full potential of théir long-since ‘badge-of-oldness’ agéd gréyness).
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