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How to help children stay dry at night
Monday 1 May 2023, 01:00 AM

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MARION APPROACHES YOU near the incontinence pads section and asks if you can recommend any products for her eight-year-old son, who still wets the bed most nights of the week. She says this is really embarrassing for him, and he is reluctant to go on camp or have sleepovers with friends. Her husband has told her he used to wet the bed until he was about nine, and that she shouldn’t worry about it as he thinks it’s just because their son sleeps so deeply.
Wetting the bed while asleep (also called nocturnal enuresis) is reasonably common in children and is not usually considered anything to worry about u
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References
- Cleveland Clinic. Bedwetting. 20 January 2023.
- National Health Service Greater Glasgow and Clyde. Readiness for Toileting Information.
- Mayo Clinic. Bed-wetting. 26 October 2017.
- Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. How to Help Older Children Overcome Bedwetting. 15 March 2022.
- Huggies DryNites. Bedwetting Alarms.
- Kamperis, K. (2021). Nocturnal enuresis in children: The role of arginine–vasopressin. In Handbook of Clinical Neurology (Vol. 181, pp. 289–297). Elsevier.