Children who pee in bed should go to the doctor

Urologist Juan Carlos Ruiz de la Roja collects in his book Why do children urinate in bed? Answers of a doctor las, the guidelines that parents should know to try to remove the diaper, first during the day and then during the night. It is also aimed at parents who have children who wet themselves du

Urologist Juan Carlos Ruiz de la Roja collects in his book Why do children urinate in bed? Answers of a doctor las, the guidelines that parents should know to try to remove the diaper, first during the day and then during the night. It is also aimed at parents who have children who wet themselves during the night. For them there are some medical guidelines, which are very easy to follow.In addition, it offers all the information parents need to know why it is important to consult the subject of enuresis with a doctor and when they should do so, as well as advice to assess what kind of prizes we should give to children, as they mature. According to this specialist, the most important thing is that we should never punish children to avoid ending up with a psychological trauma that may affect the rest of their lives.

Treatment of enuresis in children

What would you say to parents who do not take their children to the doctor, for shame to admit that they wet the bed?

There are many families who are ashamed to admit that their children wet the bed because there is a family history. In most cases it was the parents and the grandparents who wet the bed, and they are ashamed to admit it. Infant enuresis is a hereditary disease and usually the problem is experienced very much in family. It is known that it is a subject that disappears with the passage of time and, for this reason, tries to hide. We live in a taboo subject, which is not commented.Why, sometimes, these children with bedwetting do not go to the doctor?

Because the parents have also suffered the problem and know that over the years and the maturation of the bladder the problem disappears, this makes them not consult. The fact of asking a doctor about this topic invites the parents to withdraw. Unfortunately we know that approximately less than 20 percent of children under 5 years of age who wet their beds are seen by a specialist.How is the treatment of children with enuresis?

Within children's enuresis, medical causes account for 90 percent of cases. If the cause of the child's enuresis is diabetes, which causes the child to urinate frequently even at night, the treatment will consist of treating diabetes, so it is very important to do medical tests to reach a diagnosis. If the problem is that the child has an overproduction of nocturnal urine, usually the treatment is with a pill that is placed under the tongue to reduce nocturnal urine leakage. In the case that the child has a lower capacity bladder, physical exercises should be combined with a treatment to correct this delay in the growth of the bladder.Do home treatments work for the child to cure the enuresis?

The best known home remedy for bedwetting is to put heat on top of the bladder, but most of these home treatments do not work. Therefore, the most important thing is to have a specialist who offers guidelines such as reducing or controlling the amount of fluid the child drinks throughout the night, putting the child to urinate every three hours or reducing the consumption of caffeine as long afternoon to decrease the amount of nocturnal urine.How are the tests performed on children with enuresis?

Basically consist of a urinalysis, to know if there may be some problem in the urine that is justifying that child urinates in bed, and on an ultrasound to see what capacity the bladder has and see if the child empties well the bladder when urinating. Ultrasound also tells us there is some malformation of the urinary system.Marisol Nuevo. GuiaInfantil.com