Desmomelts?

[belgina]

My 8yo has been prescribed these for bedwetting. He's very wet every night, does several wees a night for which he doesn't wake. We've been doing bladder trainingfor the last 3 months, which has helped a little for his daytime accidents, but has not made a difference at night.
I was just wondering what other people's experience was of this medication.

fab for my DC

but they don't work for everyone

the result was instant - from the very first melt he was dry. we did 3 months, then a week off to review as per advice from continence clinic - wet wet wet all week so nurse advised to retart taking them

Another 3 months, a week off - dry dry dry hurrah so stopped taking them, advised the enuresis nurse, she discharged us

In addition we had to:

up his water during the day
avoid brown and red drinks (coke, ribena etc)
wee/teeth/wee before bed

um if I think of anything else I'll come back

HTH

Thanks for your reply. DH is very much against it, but I'd like to try. It's nice to see how it can help some children.

We are upping his fluids during the day (school is helping too)
He never has brown drinks, though didn't know about the red drinks.
He also does wee, stop count to 10 and wee again.
Wee last thing before going to bed.

awww there was resistance from my Mum towards this too; y'know, it's normal, don't make a fuss, leave him alone blah blah but I figured well why not try; he wasn't getting upset at the time about being wet BUT

his younger brother was dry at night

we can all remember going to school with a smelly child and I didn't want that to be him

sleepovers and school residentials were looming

Same here. There is a weekend school trip in May and he's very worried about the bedwetting situation.

Dd2 is just starting the weaning off these. She is 8 they have been instant with her but is still struggling when she misses one.

She was dry in the day at 18m and doesn't sleep for long at night so it was quite interesting that she couldn't stay dry at night

My daughter has special needs and I used these with a bed-wetting alarm to get her dry at night when she was 7/8. I had the 60mg(?) ones and gave her the full dose of ?240mg, then cut it down by 60mg each night and just used the alarm. It only took about 2 weeks for her to be totally dry.

I do think it was the alarm that retrained her brain but the medication helped because there was less wee.

Thanks for all the replies. It's been very helpful and has given me some ammunition to talk to DH. He would rather just tried for a week to see if it works and then stop and wait for nature to take it's course, which could take years looking at my family history (My mum was 13 and an uncle only was dry as he started military service

Do consider trying a bed wetting alarm was the one I used. It was some of the best money I have ever spent and I was amazed at how quickly it worked.