Reccurent UTI 3yr old. Bed wetting reccomendations?

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Hi all,
Our DD 3, has had 5 UTI, in 4months.
Now on refferal to Peadatric team.
We wash her clothes seperate to everyone else, using just non bio detergent, nothing else has changed such as soap ect, she mainly has a shower with little usage of soap below.
Since the 1st UTI, she started bed wetting at night and has maybe 1accident a day (previously full dry day and night)
Anyone else experienced this and any recomendations for bed wetting pads ect. we've been told that nappies at night could be contributing factor but she will soak herself, bedding without.
Thanks

One of my children was a bed wetter until 8. We used the Hippychick mattress protectors. They are cotton so don’t rustle or make them sweat. But in all the wet nights they never soaked through. We just put them in the washing machine and never had an issue with them.

We use to make up the bed with sheet/mattress protector/sheet mattress protector. So that when the top layer was wet you could just lift it off, change pj’s and back in bed as fast as possible. Sometimes second set was wet by morning.

I used brolly sheets when trying to get DS dry at night.

www.brollysheets.co.uk/collections/bedding

I also had a duvet protector from hippychick (used their mattress protectors too)

www.hippychick.com/categories/waterproof-bed-protectors

I used a hippychick underneath and then the brolly sheets as a draw sheet so it could just be whipped off if needed.

Oh poor little thing :(

We went through an awful period where our was two year old had several nasty infections. One led to a hospital stay and looked like possible sepsis at one point :( hospital sample needed chasing and by the time results came back she was very poorly so I would say to try and get antibiotics if ever in doubt of infection (which was what we were advised once in the right team). She had six months on trimethoprim and then became resistant to this and then had six months on nitrofurentoin which we had to fight for as was expensive from nhs point of view. We have now had 5 months no infection and meds which is like a dream. She had lots of scans etc and an mri and no one knows why it was happening. We went privately at one point to get an x ray done to rule out she was voiding ok. Some bits I managed to learn that may possibly be of help:

I thought she was drinking enough (I worked a lot) and turns out in childcare settings she needed to be drinking a lot more.

Even though no signs of constipation this can be a cause of UTI in small kids and she was treated with Movicol just in case as a preventative measure.

We used d mannose for a bit afterwards - sweetcures has good reviews and were helpful.

We saw a nutritionist whom I can highly recommend - melissa in Bath (did Skypes). Nature docs company. We made a few changes and had some expensive supplements. No idea if this is what worked or if it was the nitro. Either way thank god because the poor sod had infections every two- three weeks when not on antibiotics.

They checked for kidney size, tube issues etc and fortunately everything looked structurally sound. Nhs paed tried to palm us off with basically it being common for small kids sitting in crappy nappies sort of thing :( she had toilet trained herself at twenty months so defo wasn’t that and must have been something else. Most infections were ecoli for our daughter but different infections may lead to differently potential hypothesis from what I can gather.

When things were bad I would get her to wee in the bath so it didn’t hurt as much or would pour a jug of water on her bits to help her to see frequentkynin the day and not hold.

Best of luck. I know how stressful it is x

X-posted there, but I agree that hippy chick don't have that plastic feel to them.

Thank you for replies.
Will look at all recs!

Love my little bear, Thank you.
Her 1st UTI was in sept, within 12hrs of her being off food- no other symptoms, she had a fiberal fit as temp was 42 when she woke, fit happened within 5mins of waking and we were ambulanced to hospital where after 3 hrs the uti was detected.
Ive never been so afraid.
Her symptoms start with going off her evenong meal, talking in her sleep, high temp.
She has had antibiotics each time,(curremtly om 2nd bottle of Trimethoprim at mo) within 12hrs of these symptoms as theyve all led to UTI . Positive is we've been seen at Drs so quick (3x at A&E) .
We are hoping to see the pead team and a scan asap ,but at mo (in west wales) almost 1000 medical staff are isolating in our 3 hospitals, everything is sadly delayed but we are looking at private xray.
Im glad your Dc is on the road to recovery, like yours every 2-3weeks off antibiotics,another starts!

Will take on all the above adivice,
Thankyou

I’m so sorry to hear that. Reading your post reminds me of how stressed and frightened I was when this was happening to us.

We are South Wales so similar position the you re hospitals. We went to the spire in Cardiff and saw dr Hutton I believe (I can check). He was very good. Basically it fast tracked some things for us as the nhs kept trying to discharge us :( even though she had a four day stay and hadn’t responded to normal IV antibiotics and needed the domestos stuff apparently to get better. It really was horrendous. My grandparents and credit card helped us to finance the private stuff as I lost faith in the system a bit (with her) even though when very ill and on children’s ward her care was very good - it was all the in between that was a bit of a heart ache.

I do think some of the stuff we did with the nutritionist may have helped too. Some of it sounds quite wacky but based on research.

Really hope you get some answers soon and your little one gets better...it’s so awful to seem them go through that so frequently.

Ah yes s.wales is bad at mo ( we lived in chepstow for 10yrs and have family in Gwent) Gwent and Cardiff are so badly hit still, so sad

Even more frustrating for us is, our local hospital, 15mins away, lost its maternity unit ,SCBU unit ,peads and childrens ward last yr! we have to make the 1hr 10 journey for anything peads related now- the last time we were on an additional 30min diversion due to an accident too, meaning 1hr 40 trip for antibiotics and check over

Thankfully, my DC eat really ,really well, however I will definitely look into a nutritionalist .

Have you checked basic stuff life wiping the right way/making sure she's properly clean? No bottoms on a night might help too.

Kinda random but I get uti symptoms if I drink blackcurrant squash and it can be a bladder irritant. Maybe avoid it for a bit?

Yes always supported in learning to wipe correctly , very rarely has bubble baths but showers every other day or daily if needing.

Intersting about blackcurrant, usually has water or orange squash blackcurrant maybe every few days.
Will drop that and see if helsp too

It can't hurt at least. www.eric.org.uk/how-to-stop-or-manage-daytime-wetting isn't exactly the same issue but it was really useful when my nephew was having accidents. Cut out blackcurrant and orange and he's been so much better. Interestingly he's fine with lemon barley.