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Get the facts about bedwetting!
Frustrated parents are often told "don't worry about bedwetting! Your child will outgrow it". But a major bedwetting study in the British Journal of Urology (May 2006) concludes that many kids will never outgrow bedwetting - unless they get help. And it found that the best way to know if your child absolutely needs help is by how often he or she wets. This study found that if a seven-year-old is wetting just 1 or 2 nights per week, he has a 96% chance of outgrowing it by age 15. Even seven-year-olds who wet 3 to 6 times a week have a 76% chance of outgrowing it by age 19. But a seven-year-old who wets every night will almost never stop without getting help!
Bedwetting has been a problem, especially for boys, forever. Twenty percent are still wetting at age six. Ten percent are still wetting at age ten. And sadly, 1 or 2 percent will still be wetting at age 20. For girls the numbers are better, but some still wet at twenty. (Click here to learn about the Potty Pager for younger bedwetters.)
Almost all bedwetters are just deep sleepers, who fail to recognize the urge to urinatewhile they’re asleep. So they can’t respond like the rest of us – by either heading for the bathroom, or by resisting the urge until morning.
Sure, some may have smaller bladders than others. But regardless of bladder size, they still need to recognize that urge when it happens, in order to respond like everyone else.
Some bedwetters might have less of a natural hormone called vasopressin, so their body tissues retain less water during sleep. But regardless of how much water their bodies retain, they still need to recognize that urge, to eventually respond like everyone else.
Bedwetting is not due to laziness or bad parenting, but a failure to recognize the urge to urinate. Any real cure for bedwetting must teach the bedwetter to recognize that urge.