How to solve hereditary bedwetting?

Bedwetting is an embarrassing behavior. For growing children, frequent bedwetting will affect their physical and mental development, leading to inferiority complex and other negative thoughts. The behavior of bedwetting even exists among many adolescent children. Most of this phenomenon is hereditary bedwetting, which has a great impact on life. Let’s take a look at how to solve hereditary bedwetting? I hope everyone can understand it.

Statistics show that 70% of children with bedwetting problems have at least one parent who had the same problem as a child. These children tend to have particularly good sleep quality and remain in deep sleep for a longer period of time. EEG studies have found that when a child is in deep sleep, even if the bladder is full, there are no brain waves showing that the brain has received the stimulation signal of a full bladder, so the child will not wake up to urinate.

Enuresis, commonly known as bed-wetting, usually refers to the involuntary urination of children while they are asleep. Generally, only 20% of children have enuresis by the age of 4, and 5% have enuresis by the age of 10. In a small number of patients, enuresis symptoms persist into adulthood. Those without obvious organic lesions of the urinary tract or nervous system are called primary enuresis, accounting for 70% to 80%. Patients with enuresis secondary to diseases such as lower urinary tract obstruction, cystitis, neurogenic bladder (urinary dysfunction caused by neuropathy) are called secondary enuresis. In addition to bed-wetting at night, children often have symptoms such as frequent urination, urgency or difficulty urinating, and a thin urine stream during the day.

Boys are less able to hold urine than girls. Generally, one in three children aged 2 to 3 wets the bed.

Behavioral therapy for bedwetting

(1) Urination interruption training: Encourage your child to interrupt urination in the middle of each urination, count from 1 to 10, and then urinate completely. This can train and improve the bladder sphincter's ability to control urination.

(2) Urine retention training: Let your child drink plenty of water during the day. When he feels the urge to urinate, let him hold his urine for no more than 10 minutes each time. Do this training 1 to 2 times a day to expand the bladder and increase its capacity, thereby reducing the number of urinations at night.

(3) Timed training: Use an alarm clock to wake up the child half an hour before the time when the child usually wets the bed at night. Let the child walk back and forth in the room, or wash the face with cold water, so that the child can urinate while being conscious. This is also to help establish a conditioned reflex.

Parents should promptly detect bedwetting in their children and urge them to empty any remaining urine, wipe the area dry, change their underwear and dry the bed.