Still wet undies after a year... any ideas?

[eggsnbeans]

3yo DD has been TTd for almost a year. Started by herself (I bought a potty and left it on the floor and she started using it herself), but took a very long time to become even vaguely reliable and to notice she needed to go herself when she had clothes on.

But even now she still only seems to know she needs a wee when she's started to dribble in her undies, they're a wee bit wet pretty much every time. She also still goes pretty frequently and can't hold it for more than a minute.

Is there anything I can do to help (short of telling her to go every hour, which just masks the problem rather than solves it!) Her skin gets quite sore from her toxic wee and wet undies rubbing!

[goodmum802]

It might possibly be a urinary tract infection ? just a thought.

[ClairesTravellingCircus]

It does sound like a UTI, dd1 used to suffer loads and had similar symptoms.

[RolyPolierThanThou]

Watching with interest. My 3 year olds is the same.

He is reliable with poos but needs to be nagged onto the potty for wees and we often get wet pants moments after he's refused to use the potty ("no, I don't NEED a wee").

Being naked didn't help. He's been known to just wee where he's standing.

Yet other times he HAS taken himself to the potty unprompted and done a wee, and he usually has dry pants when we collect him from nursery (two days a week).

[ClairesTravellingCircus]

Posted too soon sorry. My dd also had an overactive bladder (which was diagnosedmuch later) which caused similar symptoms. Your dd is too young to be assessed for that, I think they need to be 5-6 ish before it's considered an issue by HCPs, but just thought I woild mention it. It took us years to get a diagnosis and treatment and no one seemed to know what was the problem!

//www.eric.org is a good source of info for continence problems in kids.

[RolyPolierThanThou]

I think that should be //www.eric.org.uk

[ClairesTravellingCircus]

Yes Roly thanks, shouldn't post in the early hours!