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Measures To Stop Bed Wetting
By Katrina Polder
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Bed wetting is a medical condition that occurs when a person, usually a child, is unable to control his or her urination while sleeping. As a result, the person will urinate while they are sleeping at night. Because this urination occurs while the person is sleeping at night, it results in the bed being wet by the involuntary release of urine by the individual.
Thus, this medical condition is often referred to informally as "bed wetting." The condition is known by other names also, such as sleep wetting or night soiling. Its more formal medical name is nocturnal enuresis. Most of the individuals who suffer from this are children, usually between four and seven years of age.
Bed wetting is a fairly common condition among young children that affects approximately 20 to 30 percent of the child population. It is more common among boys than among girls with approximately 60% of children who wet their beds being boys.
Although it is a common condition, the precise reason and physiology that leads to the condition are not yet completely identified. The basic problem is that the brain is unable to recognize messages or signals being sent by the bladder through the nervous system that the bladder is full and needs to be emptied.
These messages generally are received and recognized by the brain so the brain can alert the sleeping person of the need to wake up and go to the bathroom to urinate. Unfortunately, individuals who suffer from it are not adequately receiving these messages.
Two physiological factors associated with children generally make them more susceptible to it. First, children generally have less control over their bodies than adults do. Therefore, it should not be surprising that they also have less control over their bladders. Second, children under the age of seven have a relatively small bladder capacity.
Many boys, for example, who are concerned about their bed wetting issue find that their fathers suffered from childhood bed wetting before them. Although it is not a serious medical condition and it does not signal a major health problem, parents still become very anxious and worried when their children suffer from this condition.
Sometimes parents actually make the situation worse by over reacting when a child wets the bed and they scold the child or punish the child. Because bed wetting involves involuntary urination, scolding and punishment will not solve the problem or make it go away. Rather than over reacting, parents of children who suffer from bed wetting should try to support their child emotionally and reassure the child that the problem will resolve itself.
Most instances of bed wetting resolve themselves naturally without the need for any medical treatments or interventions. As children grow and their bodies grow larger, bed wetting usually diminishes. Most children will have outgrown bed wetting prior to 10 years of age. If it continues, medical treatment can be sought. It is very unlikely, however, that bed wetting will require such measures.
Author's Bio
Katrina Polder helps people who are interested in learning about how to get the proper kind of CNA Training Certification, so they can further their career in the healthcare industry. Find out more: http://www.emttrainingcertification.com
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