Bedwetting (or enuresis) is involuntary urination while asleep in bed. It is the normal state of affairs in infancy, but can be a source of embarrassment when it persists into school age or beyond.
Primary Enuresis is when the child has never been dry at night or has wet the bed twice a week for more than three months. Secondary Enuresis occurs when a child goes through a period of dryness and begins to experience night-time wetness again.
There is considerable debate among parents whether or not to use absorbent products such as diapers or other products like Huggies' GoodNites. Many believe the use of these products may contribute to the development of a fetish for diapers known as infantilism or regression. This belief is unsubstantiated, however, and experts agree it is the parents' attitude towards bedwetting that will determine the child's willingness to help control it.
Psychologists and experts recommend the use of night-time training devices such as a bedwetting alarm to help condition the child to wake up at the sensation of moisture. By actively including the child, instead of waking them up several times at night, the child learns to recognize the sensation of a full bladder.
Urinary incontinence (enuresis) is a medical name for bedwetting, or the accidental urination in children who should be developmentally able to have control of their bladders.
The diagnosis of enuresis is for girls over the age of 5 and for boys over the age of 6 that are still having urinary control problems.
Enuresis at night without daytime symptoms occurs in up to 20 percent of children at the age of five.
Enuresis (bedwetting) is the involuntary discharge of urine during sleep.
Nevertheless, nocturnal enuresis is present in about 15 to 20 percent of otherwise healthy 5-year-old children, 7 percent of healthy 7-year-olds, 5 percent of healthy 10-year-olds, 2 to 3 percent of 12 to 14-year-olds and 1 to 2 percent of normal children at age 15.
Enuresis is the involuntary voiding of urine at least twice a month in a child age five or older.
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