My 3.5 year old (healthy, happy, good speech) girl potty trained a year ago, but has fairly consistently struggled to stay dry. She’s at preschool 4 days a week, and they have flagged concerns that it’s unusual.
She can take herself to the toilet now, but very often she gets an extreme urge (we can tell, as she is squirming, crouching, grimacing) and when we ask ‘do you need the toilet?’ She will say ‘no’.
sometime later, she will have leaked. We then take her to the loo and she wees normally.
We have had days where we proactively put her on the toilet multiple times but this seems to not make much difference, she still leaks.
Occasionally she will have a day or two when she will say ‘hot! Hot!’ when weeing. But it passes.
She’s been checked twice for UTI by the GP (dipstick and lab culture) but it was negative both times.
We’ve tried sticker reward charts for toileting, but she genuinely seems to struggle with clarity of the sensation of needing to wee, then asking to go to the loo. I’d say she gets it right one in five times.
Googling this leads me to a diagnosis of ‘over active bladder’ - can anyone perhaps share experience of this with young kids, or give us any suggestions as to how we proceed next?
I guess we go back to the GP next week, but any personal experience people can share would be much appreciated, thank you