Female Child Urinary habits

[Mack/Maddie]

My daughter just turned four years old.  For the past month she has been having to use the bathroom very very frequently.  It started in the evenings but is happening during day now also.  She does make it through the night and does not wet the bed.

She urinates (small amounts) about every 20 minutes during day and every 4-5 minutes from 6pm to 9pm.  She says that right after she goes she feels like she has to go again but it wont come out.  She turns on the water from faucet and takes a cup of water to bathroom with her.  It is driving my husband and I crazy.

She has been to pediatrician twice and they say it is a Daytime Urinary Syndrome but I am not so sure.  It seems too unnatural.  She has had urine analysis and cultures done and are negative for all (diabetes, etc.)

Has had no nerve damage or problems such as this before.

[prinny]

A related discussion, ct scan in female under 10 was started.

[Kevin Kennedy, Ph.D.]

Your daughter is likely displaying a condition called pollakiuria, which is typified by frequent voiding throughout the day, with a relatively small amount of fluid voided at a time. The condition is transitory and is usually a response to a stressor. It usually resolves itself over a period of one to four weeks, but you can be helpful if you can ascertain the nature of the stressor and try to lessen your daughter's worry (though she may be quite unaware of the stressor).

[joanna hanna]

hello, my daughter has renal reflux, but she also has a spinal lipoma and tethered spinal cord.  i would take your daughter to a urologist and have urodynamic studies doen to make shure there is no nerve problems, also if she has a dimple or hary patch on her lumbar sacral area i would get a mri to make sure she has no spinal defect sometimes a change in bowel or bladder habbits is the first sigh of a spinal problem.

joanna hanna
katelynn 3 (tethered cord syndrome, bilateral renal reflux, right kidney damage, hypotonia, si problems,seizure)