What to do if your child has urinary incontinence?

Children's metabolism is very fast, and often causes them to be unable to control their excretion system, which results in many embarrassing problems. For example, many children will have symptoms of urinary incontinence, which is what people call bed-wetting. Although this is relatively normal for babies, long-term urinary incontinence is indeed very annoying. Let's take a look at what to do if your child has urinary incontinence.

Bedwetting: Each of us will wet the bed when we are infants and young children. This is normal. However, if a child still wets the bed after he is 5 years old, it is pathological. Medically known as "enuresis", it is an external manifestation of the child's physical deficiency. Bedwetting causes the most serious harm to children in terms of psychology and personality. It requires treatment. Modern medicine has proven that there are three fundamental reasons for children's bedwetting: weak and dysfunctional spleen and stomach, which lead to bladder gasification dysfunction; imperfect development of the central nervous system, and the urine signal cannot be transmitted to the brain in a timely and accurate manner during the transmission process; the bladder sphincter function is not fully developed, resulting in the bladder being unable to urinate normally. These three reasons influence and interact with each other. The longer the bed-wetting lasts, the worse the situation will be. Take comprehensive measures, including drug treatment, psychological counseling and behavior correction, necessary diet control and a healthy environment.

1. The nighttime bladder control ability is underdeveloped. Due to the slow development of the nighttime bladder control ability, patients with nocturnal enuresis may see improvement in symptoms and stop wetting the bed as they age; however, it may take several years to stop nocturnal enuresis, and even 1% of people continue to wet the bed after entering puberty. 2. Environmental factors: Changes in the environment and climate change such as cold weather. In addition, children who drink too much water before going to bed, eat fruits that are high in water and have a diuretic effect, and whose parents do not take care of their children in time when they feel like defecating at night can all cause bedwetting.

3. Not producing enough antidiuretic hormone (ADH) Antidiuretic hormone (ADH) is a hormone produced naturally by the body that reduces the amount of urine. 20% to 30% of children with nocturnal enuresis cannot produce enough urine-controlling hormone ADH during sleep.

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