dribbling after a wee - does your ds do this?

[TracyK]

I thought it was just a boy thing - but was reading on a bed wetting website that it could indicate other problems when dribbling after a wee and also the 'arc' of the wee should be like a bell???

Does your ds dribble?

My ds's pants always smell of wee by the end of the day - but again I thought it was just a boy thing and some of his friends 'dab' their willie after a wee with tissue paper and ds doesn't - so thought that had something to do with it too.

hi my ds id 5 and still dribbles,he doesnt the wet bed.
i belive its just a boy thing that he will grow out of it.
we encourage him to stand abit longer at the loo while he at home but once he at school,there is so much going on he tends to dribble.

I really wouldnt worry. x

I don't think little damp patches in the pants are particularly uncommon, and mostly aren't much to worry about, unless they are big enough to show through the trousers. My ds used to get damp patches in his pants, but this was normally just before he went to the loo, not after - he'd suddenly get a bit leaking out without warning(common symptom of irritable bladder/urge incontinence). This was originally provoked by a series of balanitis infections and more or less cleared up after he had an operation to retract his foreskin, which finally stopped the infections from irritating everything down there! We've been left with the nightly bedwetting legacy, though, which hasn't improved, even though he used to wet the bed far less often prior to the infections (he used to be dry for up to a couple of weeks at a time).

I believe damp patches after weeing can be a sign your child is not emptying his bladder fully when he pees. This can create a risk of bladder infections, apparently, if you are unlucky, which in turn can provoke an irritable bladder... Most of the time, I think it just causes little bits to leak out after you think you've finished. Trying to take a bit more time to go to the loo and let everything out can help - eg turning it into a game where you try to get your pee to hit a ping pong ball in the toilet, so that you are more inclined to take your time and empty your bladder fully!!!!!

Yeah the ping pong thing is great my ds now 5 loved it and helps with better aiming too.

Ds does 'dribble' a bit but as said above usually in a hurry so as not to miss out on things.