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10 year old sudden toileting issues

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Whyisithappening · 09/05/2024 21:01

My eldest DC (age 10) has always had night issues with wetting once or twice a week and has been under medical attention for it for 2 years, has medication and has used alarms in the past and it has been mainly fine at night for the last few months. However there has suddenly been an issue with me finding wet pee smelling daytime clothes and pants with a lot of poo smears in to the point you can smell it strongly in their bedroom wash basket when you walk in. One of the reasons that the night wetting happened was that they have always been a last minute toilet goer, withholding, kind of child who is dancing about like mad until you make them go, but I thought that had been grown out of. I’m honestly devastated this is happening, they are too old and I’m so worried they will be bullied because sometimes when they walk in from school I can smell pee. We have tried talking to them and they immediately get defensive and deny deny. We are not angry strict parents but tonight I picked up trousers that they wore for 2 hours tonight and they were wet and stank of pee, I just got so angry and upset I shouted, because why on earth would they just pre themselves in the house. DC said after lots of anger and denying and crying that they were sorry and they’d just held on too long. My main concerns are that they don’t seem to care or notice about smell and I’m so worried about bullying. Also it will lead to night wetting happening again if they aren’t using the loo regularly in the day and in 3 weeks they have a school residential. Had anytime got any experience of this happening and how to act? I was so upset and angry as was my DH but I don’t know if that was the approach but it’s been happening more in the last few weeks. Lots on at school and younger sibling has special needs so is still in pull ups at 6 but it’s never been an issue before.

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Are your children’s vaccines up to date?
Restricting · 14/05/2024 19:28

My first step would be to get them checked for UTI.

neversplitapole · 12/11/2024 19:15

Hello. I just wondered if you found a solution to this as going through a similar situation with my child who waits until last minute and doesn’t seem to care they they’re doing it at school and sitting in smelly clothes all day

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