Sudden bed wetting at 5 years old

[mongo123]

Hello mums. My just turned 5 year old boy for the past few weeks has been having isolated bed wetting incidents. He has been potty trained at dry at nights without ANY accidents since 3 years old. This is shocking and confusing to me. He also had 2 isolated poop accidents (soiling) during the day. These times i could tell he was feeling the urge to go but chose to ignore it. The night time pee incidents however he is just totally in deep sleep to realize. A couple times he woke up and his bladder was so full by the time he made it to the toilet he peed himself. He feels so horrible it when he sees the wet pants and he cant believe he did that and wondering if to put him back in pull ups at night but he wont entertain the thought of wearing diapers again. Anyone went through anything similar at 5...was it medical...or psychological or just sleep schedule needing to be altered. Im lost. Pls help.

My son started wetting the bed again just before dx with diabetes

Constipation can cause soiling and bed wetting.

Is it every night or occasionally? DS was dry at night from about 3.5 but has had accidents off and off ever since. Do you insist he has a wee immediately before bed? And limit drinks last thing at night? we found this has been the most important thing - ds will claim not to need a wee but will eventually do one and it turns out he really did!

If it's still happening, can you do the "dream wee" thing? lightly wake him and take him to the toilet before you go to bed? We did this for a while with DD. But admittedly,y would have been difficult with DS as his problem is that sleep is a problem so once he's asleep he's deeply asleep (hence the bed wetting) but if we woke him up at all he would not be able to go back to sleep.

We take him to pee every night before he goes to bed. Will try the dream wee. He definitely goes in to the deepest sleep when he does fall asleep so im guessing he just cant snap out of it to realize. He is going to bed very late (our fault..we also have a 6mth old) and he wakes very late vs waking early when he had physical school pre covid. Could an earlied bed time and wake time help?

Did the ped recommend diabetes testing when u mentioned this issue. I will ask mine about it. What were the other signs of diabetes?

Is he constipated? Even though he's had soiling incidents that could be overflow. If also just check with the GP if you can take him up to do a sample to rule out urine infection.

Another possibility is the stress of having a 6m other sibling? I wouldn't make a big deal of of it and just get his physical health checked.

Poo accidents are very often a sign of constipation - also a full, constipated bowel squashes down on the bladder causing wetting particularly at night.

@mongo123

We take him to pee every night before he goes to bed. Will try the dream wee. He definitely goes in to the deepest sleep when he does fall asleep so im guessing he just cant snap out of it to realize. He is going to bed very late (our fault..we also have a 6mth old) and he wakes very late vs waking early when he had physical school pre covid. Could an earlied bed time and wake time help?

Did the ped recommend diabetes testing when u mentioned this issue. I will ask mine about it. What were the other signs of diabetes?

If he's getting the right amount of sleep, I'm not sure that shifting when he sleeps makes that much difference? If, however, going to bed late means that although he's sleeping in, he's overall getting less sleep than he needs, then yes, bringing bed time earlier so that he's less exhausted might help.

DS started occasional bed wetting around the age of 5, having previously been dry for several months.

After some investigation, we read that some children around that age can have a hormone imbalance, and don't produce enough anti-diuretic hormone (ADH) to slow night time urine production.

We put in pull ups at night for a few months (I can’t remember how long) and after some time he was dry again.

There’s some info on here:

www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/bed-wetting/symptoms-causes/syc-20366685

How warm is his bedroom? My daughter started having overnight accidents when the cold weather started. We put a heater on a timer in the room and problem solved! I did take her to the Dr just to check too but there were no issues.

He was angry and drinking a lot and peeing a lot and not feeling well a lot, weight loss. Definitely definitely mention it and ASAP because diabetes can turn into DKA super quick and end badly so get him seen to ASAP

Thanks so much everyone for all your helpful advice. Will work on these suggestions

Hi OP how is your DS?