DS 10 STILL not dry at night

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DS has never been dry at night. Until he was 9 he was wetting 2 or 3 times a night.
Now he’s 10, he’s wetting 1 or 2 times a night.

He has a PGDL trip coming up and is desperate to get dry. He is refusing to wear pull ups any longer, and is using an alarm. However he is still having a small accident before the alarm goes off. So I am changing his bed and PJs twice a night. Washing is crazy. Not to mention the broken sleep; we are all like zombies!

We are careful to limit drinks after 4pm and he goes to the loo before bed. Can anyone help with some advice? He was prescribed tablets from the dr but DS is a keen swimmer and after reading about risks of ingesting water, I want to avoid that if we can.

My son took about 3 weeks with an alarm. I was honestly losing my mind thinking it would never work. I slept on the floor of his room for that time and at first I was waking up with the alarm and he had wet, this was 2 or 3 times per night at first. One night I woke up and he was weeing in the toilet. We carried on for a few more nights but he'd cracked it. It was hellish but worth it. He was about 9 and desperate for a sleepover and looking forward to residentials at school. I think it was a malem alarm. He was on desmopressin but it was the alarm that did it. I would highly recommend

Desomelt is a synthetic form of the hormone that concentrates urine at night so that we don't get up to wee as often in the night as we do in the day. Taking it can sometimes stimulate the body into producing its own. It's fine to take op. Your son swallowing a bit of pool water during the day won't harm him.

My son is nearly 11 and has never had a dry night. He’s been on desmopressin for, I think, a couple of years - with it he’s less likely to flood his pull up so we only have to change the sheets 2-3 times a week rather than 6-7 times a week. But we’ve got a specialist paediatric continence service which sounds like you’d really need as they’re great with advice and reassurance on the medication (and our nurse is clear that this is not within the sphere of expertise of some GPs).

He won’t be the first at PGL - can you ring them and ask what they’d advice, DS has done a school residential and we came up with a plan.