desmopressin helps but any alternatives to help bladder problems?

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My 8 year old dd has been taking desmopressin for some months to stop night time bed wetting. It generally works... but I wondered if anyone has heard of any natural remedies which may help.
We did the alarms but they were pretty useless.

Same here.

Alarms - useless. Woke everyone up except my dd.

Desmomelts - mixed results.

The clinic gave more and more (and more) advice. No drinks after 6. No acid drinks. No milk (too salty). No dark drinks. No fizzy drinks. No fruit juices.

Sadly, the only thing that has proven to be of any use is to just be very, very, VERY patient. DD is 12 now and is finally mostly dry, but still has the odd accident.

Thank you...so this does happen to other people's children! I'd never envisage it lasting so long. It can be such a stigmatising condition. Patience is the watchword then.

DD finally stopped bedwetting at 12y7mo. That was nearly 3 years ago, and not one accident since the night she first stayed dry...

The soggy bed sheets are nearly a distant memory now!

We had a similar problem with one of our dses - we used a combination of restricting fluids at night time, lifting him at 11pm or thereabouts, and desmopressin if he was staying away from home.

I know that lifting isn't recommended, as they are not learning to wake themselves up when they need to go, but it meant that we were not changing his bed a couple of times a night (on bad nights), and everyone was getting more sleep.

We also tried the alarms, and the first time it wasn't particularly successful, so we left it for a year or more, and had another go - which I would say almost cured the problem - we went from nightly wettings to maybe one a week - and then it tailed off altogether at around 11-12 years old.

Tbh, we carried on lifting him last thing at night for ages and ages, until we finally decided to bite the bullet and see if he could go through the night - and he did.