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Antibiotics - now its back to wet beds again

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camperkid · 03/10/2006 19:03

Since starting a course of antibiotic medicine (yellow liquid)for a throat infection, DD(9)has not had a dry night since. She was really knocked out with the throat infection and cold, but this has now gone on for over 2 weeks after finishing the medicine.
Getting dry has been an ongoing issue, and I wondered if anyone had any ideas if the colours/flavours in the medicine might cause her to be wet again? Cutting out certain brands of juice, and being careful with food colours were important in getting her dry first time around.
She never had a dry night until she was 7, was then dry for about 6 months but then relapsed totally for about a year. She has only been dry again since the Spring, and with DD2 still wet every night I could do without another winter of sodden sheets and bedding to face every morning. She is really upset too, as this limits sleepovers and trips so much for her, having to deal with the practical problem, plastic sheets and so on, as well as making excuses for not staying at friends.
Any ideas? In the meantime we are back to cutting out drinks and insisting she visit the loo before bed. Even then, the bed has still been absolutely soaked every night. She doesn't wake up once she is wet - but then she never has done.

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hairymclary · 03/10/2006 21:51

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Marina · 03/10/2006 21:55

camperkid, sounds like rotten bad luck for you both
I think the medicine you describe is amoxycillin and tbh I think you need to go back to the GP about this effect it has had on your dd1. Or maybe check with the people at ERIC to see if this is a known side-effect of the syrup.

Avalon · 03/10/2006 22:02

Dd has a problem with bedwetting. Every time she is ill, she can't stay dry. Even colds have this effect on her. Perhaps your dd hasn't fully recovered?

You could wake her up to go to the toilet when you go to bed for a few nights. This has worked for us.

singersgirl · 03/10/2006 22:13

Sorry to hear about your DD. I'm pretty sure it'll be the antibiotic, but it could be the colouring, the preservative, the flavourings, the sweeteners or all of them acting together. Some of these things can take up to 6 weeks to clear if you're really intolerant to them (as DS1 is and as it sounds as if your DD is).

DS1 wasn't dry reliably until last December, when he was 7y4m, and . He has wet the bed 3 times since then, twice after eating bright pink food (really artificial-looking strawberry ice-cream in both cases). The last time was at a hotel at Easter when he wet in the middle of the night, came into our bed and then wet our bed at about 6 in the morning. So the red colouring really must trigger it for him.

I don't have much helpful to suggest, I'm afraid, but really hope this is just a phase after the medicine for your daughter.

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