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Child Behavior (Expert Forum)
Bed wetting
Answered by
Kevin Kennedy, Ph.D. - Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy, Family Therapy, Crisis Intervention
Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates
This forum is for questions and support regarding child behavior issues such: Child Discipline (behavior management), Normal Child Development, Parent-Child Communications, Social Development
Bed wetting
by Klaudia, Dec 30, 2002 12:00AM
I just posted a question and forgot I had one more. My boyfriends 9 year old daughter still wets the bed on a nightly basis. Is this normal? Is there anything pro active that we should do for this? Or just leave it alone and she'll stop when she's ready. As of now she wears GoodNights to bed every night and throws away the wet one in the morning.
Doctor's Answer
by Kevin Kennedy, Ph.D., Dec 30, 2002 12:00AM
, Dec 30, 2002 12:00AM
Generally, there is no emotional cause of nocturnal enuresis. A percentage of children, more boys than girls, remain enuretic at night at her age. The problem will likely resolve over time, but if she is interested in improvement two interventions can prove helpful: (a)medication - which her pediatrician can tell you about (there are several) and (b) so-called wet-stop alarms. She's at a good age for either approach.
