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Bed wetting..

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anteater · 29/03/2007 12:04

DS1 is 9 years old and still regularly wets her bed.. actually her pull ups!

We have tried all sorts of methods to get her to wake or hang on, but nothing seems to help. She is a very deep sleeper.

She is naturally a quiet and shy girl so we have never made a big deal out of this
BUT
she is due to go on her first overnight trip with her school in 6 weeks and I was wondering if anyone had any advise..

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fluffyanimal · 29/03/2007 12:27

Tell the school, see if there are any nice understanding teachers who are going on the trip, and send plastic mattress protectors and spare bed linen, PJs etc. She'll need support if it happens. Are you worried she'll be teased by the other kids? if you have a supportive teacher on side who can discreetly change her bed, it should be OK. It should probably do her confidence a lot of good if she thinks you feel she can go for an overnight trip. You can tell her that the teacher is all prepared to deal with it just in case she gets caught out and not to worry. Better than not letting her go, or trying too hard to stop the problem before then.

How long is the trip? More than likely she'll be up all night talking with the other kids anyway!!

My niece wet the bed for years for no discernable reason, it just happens with some kids. Not making a big deal is the way to go I believe.

CocoLoco · 29/03/2007 12:28

My 12 year old still does this quite regularly - it seems to go in phases, he's a very deep sleeper too, and we don't make a big deal out of it.

When we were going off on holiday (staying in hotels) we finally went to the doctor and got the nasal spray (Desmopressin), I wouldn't want him to use it all the time but it was very effective and got us through that holiday, also got him through a school trip.

bigbird2003 · 29/03/2007 13:25

For the trip away, Drs can prescribe a nasal spray to use that will dry her up

After the trip see an eneurisis (sp?) nurse.

Our advice was....
to ditch the pull ups, they don't let the child know they are wet iyswim.

Train the bladder, lots and lots of drinks during the day and lots of toilet breaks. No big drinks after 6pm, sips...just enough to satisfy thirst (though if they have drunk loads during the day, they should be well hydrated)

No red or fizzy drinks (orange squash/juice is fine, no blackcurrant)

We followed this advice and it took a year to get 100% dry and my daughter is disabled so has added issues

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NannyL · 29/03/2007 18:38

i assume you can send some pull ups for the school trip?

hopefully with baggy PJs none of her freinds would realise she is wearing them?

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anteater · 30/03/2007 10:38

Hi,
thank you for your ideas.
Yes she wears pull-ups every night.
Wet 5/7.
She is quite a master at removing them on the quiet when friends are round..

I know how terrified she is about this trip tho and I thought it may concentrate the mind..
will defo try the bladder training and perhaps go for the nasal spray as a last resort.

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tortoiseSHELL · 30/03/2007 10:39

anteater, does she tend to wet the bed at a particular time each night? Could she take an alarm clock to put under her pillow to set for say an hour before, so she could get up and go to the toilet?

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anteater · 30/03/2007 11:09

Seems to be when she drops into her 'turbo' sleep, that she wees. You can march a brass band thro her bedroom and she does not stur!

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JanH · 30/03/2007 11:21

DS1 was like this, anteater, and he did have to take pull-ups on the Y6 trip. He is also unwakeable - at one point we had one of the big old-fashioned buzzer alarms for him, which didn't wake him, so I put the buzzer inside a biscuit tin next to his head, which made it incredibly loud, and it still didn't wake him, just the rest of the house

He was helped by desmopressin tablets - one of the probs with late bedwetters is that the hormone vasopressin, which slows down kidney function and urine production at night, isn't being produced automatically so they are still dealing with gallons of wee - purely developmental delay.

Desmopressin is a synthetic version and it does work, although with DS1 it took a while - your GP can prescribe it for you, usually one month's worth at a time, if you get it now she can get used to it and see how she gets on with it. Good luck, it is difficult for the child and the parents!

fluffyanimal · 30/03/2007 11:22

Big Bird, what is particular about blackcurrant drinks? I always drink blackcurrant at home and usually have to get up in the night for a pee.

JanH · 30/03/2007 11:23

desmopressin (Patient.co.uk}

JanH · 30/03/2007 11:26

eric

Great website, has pages for parents and for kids, very reassuring!

bigbird2003 · 30/03/2007 12:27

I have no idea! Eneurisis nurse just said no red drinks. It did make a huge difference too. We always had ribena as it didn't have sweeteners but changed it to high juice orange. Even now, if she has a blackcurrant or fizzy drink with tea, she has the occasional accident.

The bladder training really helped too, like I said she was a difficult case as she is also disabled but we were desperate to try anything

mumeeee · 31/03/2007 23:18

DD3 wet the bed until she was 14 she is now 15 and has not had a wet bed for about a year. She used to attend an enuresis clinic. She took desmopresin tablets when she was going on a trip and also took her pull ups. I used to talk to the adults in charge and they would make sure she was able to both take the tablets and change her pull ups discreetly.
The enuresis clinic advice to allow her to have as much to drink as she liked right up to bedtime the only restrictions were no fizzy drinks if posible and if she wanted them as treat on holiday not to have more than one a day and none after 5, also no tea.

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