Bedwetting in older kids ?

[ZanySeal]

My son turns 10 next week and he's a all around good kid . The only problem we're having is he still wets the bed at night . He's only had a handful of dry nights in his life . We just have him wear goodnites to bed and they work good usually. He potty trained at 18 .months for daytime never thought I'd still be buying pull-ups at this age . A body else have an older bedwetter?

Have you seen the GP about it?

School nurse service would also be a good point of contact as would ERIC website and Bowel Bladder UK (both charities).

At that age you should have support to identify a cause & treat but as pp said starting point at that age should be the gp as there could be various reasons

Yeah we seen his gp she said everything appears to be normal and that he'll outgrow it at puberty.

My oldest girl was a serious bedwetter and nothing we did helped ie lifting her to the toilet late at night,no drinking last 6pm,reward chart for 7 days straight to see if she could be enticed to remind her brain to wake up etc....what eventually stopped her was a bed wetting alarm after one night!

The alarm was so loud and gave her such a shock,she just stopped!I wasn't expecting it to happen like that but it did.

For ref,she is turning 10 in a few days and this all happened during the year - up until then,bedwetting was 4-5 nights a week.

Some kids are just very heavy sleepers and she is one of those!

My 9yo is the same. He hated the tablets so we don't use them and he wets through his night pants often

I just figure one day it will stop.

Yup, two of them. Both boys. They grew out of it at 9 and 10. I know it's difficult and frustrating but rule number one is be reassuring, matter of fact and don't make an issue of it.

I used to layer up their beds with a plastic sheet in-between and leave out clean pyjamas so all that was needed was a quick change of bed and boy, and back to sleep they went. No drama, no fuss at all, no talking about it, no signs of annoyance. They couldn't help it, after all.

In time they both learned to manage it themselves without waking me or DH because it was easy for them to deal with. In the morning everything got washed and all was well. As I said, the problem eventually just disappeared and there have been no issues since.

It's strange really, as their younger brother was dry day and night at two and a half.

Yeah we don't make a big deal out of it we just keep him stocked in nightpants . He told us the other day he's the only one his age still wetting the bed I told him thiers probably lots more just no one talks about it . Keeping morale up is hard when he wets about every night .

Get a desmopressin prescription. Solved it for us in 3 months. Your GP is not very knowledgeable.

we had years of the same, tried everything, went to enuresis clinic, bought an alarm etc… nothing solved but desmopressin.

Find the one in your area https://childrenshealthsurrey.nhs.uk/professionals-referral-page/managing-enuresis and discuss desmopressin with your GP. Waiting for another 2-3 in case he outgrows it seems cruel. He is already self conscious about it.

Will have to try medication we have nothing to loose.