Bed wetting alarm

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Has anyone used a bed wetting alarm?
My 8yo son still wets every night. He is impossible to wake so a few times I've carried him to the toilet around 11pm but no consistency to this working.

He is getting so frustrated with it now and not sure what else I can try.
Any advice greatly received!

Have you been to the doctors?? This is not normal developmentally

School nurse can help, give them a call. My friend had this issue. She was advised to avoid giving drinks after 6pm and give an ice cube to suck on if her son said he was thirsty.

The doctor sent websites for help with bed wetting and an alarm was recommended then. She didn't seem concerned or run any tests

If you go back to the GP they should refer you to the enuresis clinic who will give you an alarm to use. We've also bought alarms on Amazon (£50-£100) as they were wireless and DC was getting tangled up in the wired clinic alarms and pulling them off during the night.

Yes. It worked brilliantly for my SEN daughter. She was 12 and wet the bed every night. It worked in a week!

We were super sceptical as ds 8 is dead to the world, we were doing all the right things already and I thought it wasn’t fair/very disruptive to his/our sleep. agreed to try it for 4 weeks then switch to meds if no improvement.
Week 1 was tough. Alarm every night and quite disruptive but soon saw improvements with random dry nights. We’re now on week 6 and he’s just done an 11 night run of dry with only 1 wet night which is unreal compared to previous soaking every night. We’ll definitely persevere.
The only downside is he’s a very sweaty sleeper and so we’ve had to buy thicker jersey cotton sheets as it was going off all the time under the normal cheap Asda ones.
Definitely worth a try. He’s so much happier now too which is the main thing.

The alarm (mat) worked on our DS8 when I had pretty much given up all hope. The first three weeks were tough but eventually things clicked. He has now had about 6 months of consistently no more nighttime wetting (and stopped using the mat about 5 months ago).
It's absolutely worth trying!

DS was 7 and was wet through every night. He slept quite deeply and just wouldn't wake up. We were referred by the GP and an alarm was recommended to us. I was really sceptical about it working but after a couple of disturbed nights it was like someone had waved a magic wand and he's been dry at night ever since. I would definitely give it go.

@rainbowslate If you haven't already looked on https://eric.org.uk/ for information then definitely start there.

@Temporaryname158 actually it is fairly normal but people don't talk about it as there is still a stigma attached to it.

From Eric website "Around 15% of all 7 year olds regularly wet the bed"

We did everything listed on the Eric website, even measured liquid input in, liquid output too plus GP visit. The alarm just jolted Ds awake, he was a very heavy sleeper. It did stop him mid flow but to be honest it woke up Ds, both myself and Dh and it traumatised Ds. We tried all the different settings for which noise to use, none of them were of comfort to him. We just returned back to pull ups overnight. He was dry at 10.

We knew he didn't produce the hormone vasopressin which slows down urine production whilst we sleep so our bladder doesn't get full and so doesn't need emptying. He responded well to the medical version of it, Desmopressin which we used for holidays, school residentials etc but we did not want to permanently drug him as he was on the maximum dose at 7.

Used one for my DD when she was 9 as nothing else had worked - we tried lifting her before we went to bed, restricting fluids, increasing fluids, more exercise, less exercise, restricting sugar, hypnotherapy and nothing worked plus there was no consistency to her wetting! Dr wouldn't help and the enuresis clinic was worse than useless once we restricted her fluids and it didn't work.

The first night we used the alarm, everyone in the house woke up except for DD!! Second night she woke just after wetting, third night she woke just as the first dribbles came out. Then she was fine but even now at 22 still has to go to the loo as soon as she is near one!

My son (just turned 10) was wet every single night. He is a heavy sleeper too. You literally cannot wake him once he is asleep. The dr was never very concerned when he was younger but as he was approaching 10, ds was getting more and more upset with himself and it was affecting his self esteem. We had to fight the dr for it but they finally gave us a prescription for desmopressin. He was on it for 3 months then had to have a one week break. He hasn’t needed to take it again yet and has been dry without medication for around 3 weeks and he is so happy. We never tried the alarm though. Went straight to the medication.

Used the alarm with my son when he was 7. We had the one where you attach a sensor to special undies. Same as all the above posters, he was an extremely heavy sleeper and wet almost every night. The alarm worked within a month and after the first week he was only doing a dot of wee but that was enough to set it off. He's nearly 9 now and wet once in a blue moon.

I refill his glass 3-4 times at dinner time and make sure he drinks plenty during the day so he's not thirsty at night time. I don't restrict fluids at all but by making sure he's had loads to drink all day he doesn't actually seek much at night.

My son has ADHD, no idea if that's relevant to anything but thought I'd throw it in there

It's not that unusual actually. My son wet the bed at 8 and our GP said its very common before puberty. You have to wait for a certain hormone to kick in before it stops. I never bothered with alarms etc. Just followed the advice to give him lots to drink earlier in the day and little to drink in the evening. He stopped wetting the bed before he was 9.

We used this with my daughter who was wet every morning, she was dry within 2 weeks using this and very rarely has accidents now. I would highly recommend.

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@rainbowslate this is a zombie thread but intrigued if you tried an alarm? Our son is 6.6aYo and considering trying an alarm.

Realised it's a zombie as well but as you asked: We used one with DS probably around the same age as you. As with most of the PP's he was such a heavy sleeper so whilst he was toilet trained around the usual age he was still in wet nappies at night for a long time after.

I'd say it took less than a fortnight and only three accidents. We used the pants that have the bit of metal in the front which sets off the alarm.

@MalcolmsMiddle thanks for taking the time to reply. I’m always wary of poking the bear when replying to a zombie thread 😂

I’ve had a look at the ones on Amazon that you clip on. He had surgery for sleep apnea when he was 2.5 and I think to make up for it he goes into hibernation at night!

He hasn’t had a clue the last three nights when he has been wet during the night.

We had one for my son when he was 6. It had an effect within weeks although initially the alarm going off is disruptive. It is distressing for them. Definitely worth trying.

I disagree with this, I think it is normal and common

Yes, worked brilliantly when DD was 7/8.

I used this one with my daughter age 6 and it took about 2 weeks to work. She stayed dry after that although does still get up to pee in the night age 8!

DryEasy

We got the astric one and it worked on my 5 year old.