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davenlib

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my 8 year old stil wets her bed on occassion (maybe once a week). Anyone out there have experience with those sensors that you attach to their underwear?

what else have you tried that works??

she has been checked medically so that is not the problem.. She is just a very heavy sleeper...:zzz:
 
The obvious things? Make sure to go before going to sleep and don't drink a lot of fluids at night.

-David
 
I used the sensor when my son was six. The theory was that he was supposed to awaken at the noise, stop peeing, and finish in the bathroom. It was supposed to train his body to recognize when the bladder was full. The reality was that although it sounds like a smoke detector going off, he could have slept through it. So, at the first sound, I lept out of bed, grabbed the sensor and wiped it to stop the noise (we had a baby in the other bedroom), woke my son and gave him a jar or took him to the bathroom, changed the underwear, and put him back to bed. The first week, the buzzer sounded about 3 times a night, it decreased to about twice, then once a night, and he stopped wetting around week six. He never ever woke in the night to use the bathroom, and peed a gallon every morning.

At age 5, 5% of all boys still night time wet, by age 6 it is 1% of boys. Some kids with a family history of nighttime enurisis wet until adolescence. I don't know why the buzzer worked for us. I gave it to several other of my patients and it didn't work for them and they weren't as dedicated at getting up as I was. The medication DDVLP works about 50% of the time to decrease the frequency of the wetting.

We tried no fluids after 6, and bathroom trips around midnight, but it didn't help. With the buzzer, I could see that he wet frequently all night.

Good luck and good night.
 
This may sound crazy, but ....I work in a chiropractors office and we have had success treating kids with bedwetting issues with regular chiropractic care. Go to http://www.ghchealth.com/forum/about399.html for information on a study that has some interesting results.
 
Take it from someone with experience...

I wet the bed till I was 13. Whatever you do, DO NOT SHAME HER!!! It is beyond her control. In my case, it was allergies whioch lowered my immune system and that part of the brain which controlled the bladder flow. Once it was diagnosed which food groups I shopuld avoid, my bed wetting abated. Have her checked for allergies. What have you got to lose?

In my case I was highly allergic/sensitive to bananas and apples. Guess what my parents religiously fed me every dsay in order to keep the doctor away? Remember, an ***** a day keeps the doctor away. Well in my case, it keep the bed wet every evening.

Good luck...

frenchieinme :hi:
 
My brother and I were late bedwetters. My 9 yr old grandson still wets the bed. At age 6 the dr suggested the device that you attatch to his underwear. The whole household woke up but not my grandson. After 3 mo of this the dr said they might as well stop it because he is a heavy sleeper and it wasn't working as intended. He just continues to wear pullups at bedtime. His 6 yr old sister is dry at night.I do have allergies but no indication of them as a child.
 
I was going to suggest allergies. A friend of mine's daughter had this problem and I must have read something about oranges and allergies causing bedwetting because she stopped eating citrus and no more problem.
Liz
 
I have a nephew that used the sensor and it worked for him. The parents have to be very committed to do this, as you can tell from the stories. My sister said it was very hard and expensive, but it worked. You have to be the one to wake up and first and get the child up, but it does work.

Good luck.
 
Pacific International

Our son was still wetting the bed when he was 6 and he would soak his pullup thru every night and I would still have to change sheets. We tried this bedwetting program thru Pacific International http://www.stopwetting.com/ which involved a pad with sensors the child would sleep on. You have to be very commited to the program. The child must drink water before bed and when the sensor goes off you must wake the child completely even if the whole house wakes up or if you have to dump water on them they have to shut the alarm off, go to the bathroom, dry the pad off and change their own sheets. It worked great for us the first week the alarm would go off about two times a night the next week once a week and by the fourth week he was dry and has been ever since. You have to fill out report cards with times the alarm went off etc and send them in every week and even after you are dry the continue to monitor you for another 6 weeks. Every week they send you instructions on what you need to do for the new week according to last weeks report card. It was pretty pricey I think it cost us $2500 5 years ago you can apply for insurance reimbursement but we never tried we figured it would be cheaper in the long run on our insurance rates if we just paid for it ourself (we are self employeed / farming).

It worked great for us and it has actually helped how our son sleeps. He used to be almost in a drug like state when you woke him up in the morning he just couldn't wake up but now he can get right out of bed and get ready for school in about 10 minutes where it was taking 30 - 40 minutes to get him up and dressed in the morning.
 
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I used the same sensor for my two boys. The sensor worked for both boys within a few weeks. I waited until they were 7 to see if they weened off wetting without any intervention. Went through many pullups and they slept on waterbeds so that I could wipe the bed off everyday and changed their sheets everyday.

Good luck.
 
bedwetting

Got this info from Dear Abby. Lady writes that it was succesful w/ her 13 year old son.

Hargitt House Foundation
www.hargitthousefoundation.com
or
email: info@hargitthousefoundation.com

The website gives a free consultation and the program is $495 and is supposed to be tax deductible. They claim to be succesful in 6-8 weeks. Satisfaction guaranteed using a "score board" treatment method. (whatever that means?) Don't know if insurance would cover it or not. Would be interested to find out if it works or not.
 
I am very sympathetic towards this post. I went throught this with my son. I researched every gadget and medication. I feared (he didn't?) sleep overs etc. I changed sheets often. Sometimes every night. I limited beverages and I woke him up late at night to use the potty. We always traveled with a plastic sheet. Nothing worked. I talked with his doctor who confided with me that he too was a bed wetter until 14. I thought I couldn't make it until then. His sister after all had been dry since 3 or 4. The doctor told me that it would taper off and eventually disappear. I didn't beleive him. But, alas, it did stop. Right around puberty. That's a long time-but I just wanted you to know-that it WILL stop-whether you believe that or not. I don't think there is a magic cure-believe me-I would have found it. Keep your chin up.
 
I have a co worker whose 13 year old son was still bedwetting. They finally tried the medication and it worked like a charm for them.
 
My daughter wet the bed when she ate or drank certain foods close to bedtime. Yep, apple juice would do it every time.

I would recommend maybe keeping a food log to see if certain foods or drinks triggered the bedwetting.
 
Tonsils were the culprit.......

for one family I knew . For at least 5-7 people, once the tonsils were removed the bedwetting problem ended. This spanned a couple of generations too.
 
what a wide variety of suggestions.. thank you for them all..

I am currently trying a homeopathic method and for three nights it has worked..might just be a coincidence.. I will keep trying it and paying attention to all the other suggestions.. The allergy suggestion was a new one for me..
I did ask a chiroprachtor and he agreed that it would help so we might give that a try too.:hi:
 
One of my sons wet the bed until he was 10 or so. DH did the same thing as a child. We just dealt with it until it went away. We were careful never to make him feel badly about it.

They DO outgrown this.

Sheila
 
IreneLF said:
for one family I knew . For at least 5-7 people, once the tonsils were removed the bedwetting problem ended. This spanned a couple of generations too.
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I didn't have my tonsils out until I was a senior in high school. Luckily my bedwetting stopped long before then:clap: :)
 
The first step is admitting YOU have a problem and stop blaming it on a child :)

davenlib said:
my 8 year old stil wets her bed on occassion (maybe once a week). Anyone out there have experience with those sensors that you attach to their underwear?

what else have you tried that works??

she has been checked medically so that is not the problem.. She is just a very heavy sleeper...:zzz:
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Hate to say it but don't worry about it and don't make a fuss about it... one of our boys had accidents until he was almost a teenager... apparently this is hormone related... normally your body produces something or other that will slow down the kidneys at night but in these cases it doesn't happen HOWEVER the good news is that you never hear about an adult having these problems... everyone that I know who had this eventually outgrew it.
 
This goes along with the allergy thread.....there is a lot of research that shows that kids that have enlarged tonsils and adenoids (either from allergies, chronic infections/inflammation, and/or from just simply being large) have sleep issues on the line of sleep apnea. This goes along with them being very deep sleepers. Anyway, when they have an episode of apnea, they'll also wet the bed. Often you aren't even aware of the sleep apnea issues, just the more obvious bedwetting.

I didn't read these research articles until a few years AFTER my oldest son had his tonsils and adenoids out. He was in 2nd grade and was still wetting the bed off and on. As soon as he had them out, the bedwetting (ahem!) dried right up. He had very large tonsils and adenoids, though never any problems with strep throat or anything like that. He's the kid who always has a runny nose. His younger brother has little never wet the bed since he put on his first pair of underpants, and he also has no tonsil/allergy issues. One of my nieces has enormously enlarged tonsils/adenoids, chronic stuff nose, etc and is still wearing pull-ups to bed in 5th grade!

Hmmmmm, so look down her throat and see if the tonsils are large. Tendency towards stuffy/runny nose?
Allergies?
Tendency to breathe through her mouth?
Could be sleep-related breathing problems.
 
This is interesting...and certainly matches the experience we had with our youngest daughter...We didn't make the connection at that time. Her adenoids were removed because of continuous infections and drainage, but she had also been having trouble staying dry until much later than normal.


hibbeln said:
This goes along with the allergy thread.....there is a lot of research that shows that kids that have enlarged tonsils and adenoids (either from allergies, chronic infections/inflammation, and/or from just simply being large) have sleep issues on the line of sleep apnea. This goes along with them being very deep sleepers.
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