help needed bedwetting

[devonshiredumpling]

my son is six years old now and is still in pull ups at night .when should i start to get worried about him .i want him to get dry but do not know how to go about this .please help

I've had the same problem with my grandaughter(she lives with be)I brought wet stop bed wetting alarm from amazon,I've been using it nearly two weeks now.The first ten nights were so hard,the first few nights we got woken up four times each night then twice she slept through alarm half the tine.sunday and Monday was dry last two nights alarm has woken her,she has managed to stop seeing so only had to change undetware.Ive read it can take a couple of months to really work,but I use bed nats ontop of sheet.Its been amazing though I surpose she has been seeing in her sleep for nearly six years so will take a while to break habbit.

It's not a habit - being dry at night is solely down to the production of a particular hormone, it's not something you can train for.

devonshire if you're concerned, see the GP, but I don't think they worry at all until at least 7yo.

In our case it was her eating a pull up nappy that made her think she is to wee in it.sometimes I would go up about an hour after id put her to bed and she would of done a wee,I asked her why and she said coz I've got my nappy on.When I spoke to doc about it he said if you've been doing something for six years that's completly normal it will take a while for it to click to go to the loo.The alarm is working for us as she had never had a dry night in her life.
I had tryed her without pull Ups before but by the time I went to bed she wad soaked and sound asleep
She is now getting up herself and is very very proud of her self.

Sorry wearing a pull up not eating.

I took my son to the GP when he was 7 and the bed wetting was sorted with medication. He took Desmomelt for 9 months and then stopped because he didn't need it anymore. I would advise not waiting until 7. Desmo can be taken from age 5 and I wish we'd avoided all the unnecessary aggravation. As ZuleikoD said it is down to the hormone and the child can't help it.

It might not be like a habit the child can consciously stop, but from my ds's experience of bed wetting and successfully using an alarm, it seems to work by re training the brain/bladder not to wee at night. I'm not sure how else it can work,as my child was wet nearly every night at 6, and within 2 weeks of using an alarm (the Rodger one) he was dry.He is a deep sleeper,but he very rarely needs to get up at night to use the toilet now he is dry at night.
I'm glad we tried the alarm, it seemed the right time to do it, and if the GP can't help until 7, it might be worth a try before trying medication.

Ds3 is 6.8 and until 6 months ago was wet almost every night. He wears pull-ups and is happy to do so. He is now rarely wet. It will come.