If your child wets the bed, it does not necessarily mean a health problem or a situation requiring a specialist’s consultation. Still, if this lasts for more than three months and the doctor rules out a urinary tract infection or other health problem, it will be necessary that you consult a specialist in childhood enuresis.
According to the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS), between 95 and 98 percent of well-diagnosed and treated enuretic children cases are successfully resolved. This control can be achieved between three to six months following a comprehensive therapy in which the pediatrician, urologist, psychologist, and child psychiatrist participate.
Starting at age five, a boy or girl should have sphincter control when sleeping. However, if he continues to have frequent accidents, “It is very likely that he has nocturnal enuresis (involuntary urination that occurs at night) while sleeping, after the age when a child should be able to control his bladder”, according to the pediatrician Reynaldo Ramírez Castillo.
Figures from the Ministry of Health in Mexico indicate that nocturnal enuresis occurs between 10 and 13 percent of the six-year-old child population and between 6 and 8 percent in children under ten years of age.
The institution highlights that this can be classified into:
For its part, the American Academy of Pediatrics mentions that they can still wet the bed:
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A range of causes
Dr. Ramírez Castillo, a pediatrician certified by the Mexican Council for Pediatric Certification, explains that various reasons may be causing a girl or boy to suffer from nocturnal enuresis, for example:
What should I do if my child wets the bed?
Pediatrician Ramírez Castillo from the Cemain Hospital in Tampico explains that most children stop wetting the bed independently. Yet, he clarifies that little ones will need a little help because, as seen above, there are cases in which the nocturnal enuresis may be a sign of a disorder that has not been diagnosed and may require medical attention.
It is essential to consult with the pediatrician if the little one returns to wetting the bed after not doing it for months. “Or, if enuresis is accompanied by pain when urinating, unusual thirst, pink or red urine, hard stools or snoring”, the expert recommends.
Translated by: Ligia M. Oliver Manrique de Lara
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