Enuresis

The family is the smallest unit of society and it shoud be a source of happiness for individual. This is why a sound dialogoue between parents and their children is so important. Treating them affectionately and inspiring confidence in them plays an important role in terms of preparing them for their life as physically and psychologically healthy individuals.


In spite of cozy atmosphere of the home, we might come across some problems that are difficult to solve. Some problems are apparent to our friends and neighbors while others are known only by family members and are kept secret. In such cases, we may not know how to deal with a problem, and thus need to seek help from experts and doctors. Wetting the bed is a typical example of such problems. When such a problem persistently occurs it is only compounded if we hurt the child and cause them to feel bad or inferior because of this problem what many people do not realize is that this is a problem that is easily solved.

Families with children, who wet the bed while between the ages of 5 and 15, sometimes even up to the 20 have a serious problem. Every morninng these families wake up another problem. The nasty smell, changing the sheets and cleaning the pajamas are not things that people enjoy first thing in the morning.

Bedwetting is actually a common problem. what then, are the underlying reasons? how common is it reality? Is there an effective treatment for it? What is the success rate of the treatment? We will try to answer all these questions.

Occasional cases of bedwetting untillthe age of five are considered as nothing unusual. If bedwetting continues after the age of 5 then this indicates an ilness known as "enuresis" . Reseach carried out on primary school aged children found that between 20-30% of children wet the bed in general. It is usually more common among boys. The percentage increases with children from families for a lower socio-economic background, mostly due to malnutrition.

Anemi and adenoids cause hypoxia and hypercapnia . If these conditions are present then patient sleep too soundly and the control of the central nervous system over the other systems is weakened. As a result the patient wets the bed as they lost some control over their muscles.

Bedwetting os thought to result from psychological problems if it is accompained by problems like suffering from a tic, stuttering, nail-biting, over jealousy, or failure at school. A child a urinary tract or bladder infection or kidney stones may not be able to control their need to urinate during the day either. If no physical ilness can be detected, then there may be a serious psychologocal disorder.

1 Response to "Enuresis"

Unknown dedi ki...

when i was 8 years old , i have been wetting my bed too:D. but now i have no problems about enuresis.
i think parents approaches ,their children who are enuresis patients, friendly and kindly.

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