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Food colours/flavours in medicine? - gone back to wet beds

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camperkid · 03/10/2006 20:40

I posted this in health, but you may have some thoughts here. Anyway, 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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HauntedsandCastle · 04/10/2006 00:54

I would say that it is more a knock on effect of the illness, as you say it's been two weeks since she finished the meds. It does sound like she was bad, so maybe she is still recovering.

It also sounds like you had a hard time trying to get her dry, so it may just be a knock-on effect that the chemicals that slow down urine production have gone a bit squiffy due to the illness

I think that you may just have to ride this one out, still going with what you did in the beginning to get her dry in the first place and accepting that this may be an ongoin thing when she poorly.

Sugarmagnolia · 05/10/2006 10:11

Don't know about the colouring but antibiotics can upset their tummies anyway - yoghurt with live cultures is really good for counter-acting this.

Then again, other aspects of her diet could be a factor. For my DS dairy was the problem. When he was a baby we realised he was dairy intolerant - caused sickness, diarhhoea etc. Everyone said he would outgrow it by the time he was 2. Sure enough at 2 it didn't seem to make him so sick anymore so we started letting him have it. He then toilet trained really well but seemed to go through period where he just could not stay dry. Sometimes he would be dry for weeks then wet constantly for a week. So we tried cutting all dairy out of his diet again and.....the problem went away overnight! He's been totally, 100% dry since.

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