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Hi
my nine year old son is still regularly wetting the bed. It's no big issue for him or us other than it being a pain in having to wash the sheets every day.

He did have a sore willy which was prescribed Fucidin and for a week or two he didn't wet his bed but it's started to happen again.

Has anyone had similar experiences of bed wetting and is it something he will just grow out of or are there things we can try to help speed up the process.

We obviously make sure he goes to the loo before bed and i don't think it's an anxiety thing.

Interested to hear any thoughts or suggestions.

Thanks

I've an 8 year old who is still in pull ups. They are wet every morning so we keep them on.
Were going to have a go at training this summer, but am going to ask the doctor for a referral back to the clinic we went to a few years ago when we couldn't get him dry or clean during the day.

There is an alarm that you can borrow, its a mat they sleep on and as soon as its wet the alarm goes off and they wake. Its meant to help train the brain to wake.

I had a friend with a 10 year old boy who was trained within a few weeks this way.
Apparantly its a hereditary problem so I blame his dad!!

Now your ds is 9, it probably is worth asking for a referral to an eneuresis clinic for advice, as there are several things that can be done. The most successful does seem to be the bedwetting alarm - around 80% of children find this works for them after a few weeks of proper use and they start being able to wake up in time even without the alarm. It is also possible to get a prescription for an artificial hormone that makes them produce less urine overnight (a hormone that normally kicks in naturally at quite a young age, but in some children it just doesn't until much later on, making it impossible for them to go all night without needing the loo). However, being a medication-based approached, it can have side effects and only rarely works in the long term - ie once you stop using it, most children go back to wetting the bed again, because it doesn't solve the problem of them sleeping too deeply to wake up and go to the toilet. It works well for special occasions, though (eg staying overnight at friends' houses, going on a short holiday).

It does sound as though your ds is a bit of a deep sleeper, if having a sore willy helped, as that probably made him uncomfortable enough to be more aware of what was going on!

There was a programme called Embarrassing Bodies Kids on TV recently, and a boy who was 9 kept wetting in the night, it transpires that he was not producing the hormone vasopressin that suppressing urine output at night, he was put on some medication and was fine ever since. Worth going to the doctor and asking about this, might be a medical problem.