Bedwetting

[Boymom43]

Hi hoping for advice, my son is 8 and still bedwets most nights, I’ve taken him to the drs a couple of months back, she basically wasn’t interested and just said stop him drinking after his dinner which is between 430/5pm so by 6 she wanted him to stop! He mostly drinks water and squash in the day, I’m at a aloss, as I don’t feel the dr was really interested also stuck for any tips, I’ve woken him during his sleep but didn’t stop
I’ve left him
he’s conscious himself about it, so will go to the toilet a lot before bedtime and always before sleeping, if anyone has advice I’d be very greatful 🙂

It can be hormonal and normal for boys this age but there are medications that can be taken to help, not sure of side effects though or if they’re intended to be just short term. Bless him feeling embarrassed, that’s hard.

Go back to the doctors, they can help with medication at his age. And stop the squash, it's rubbish for bed wetters. Just water.

Take a look at the ERIC website. Lots of advice on there. My lad uses a wee alarm, which wakes him when he has an accident, and has helped to reduce nightly wetting to less frequent. We kept going back to the GP until we got a referral to the local continence team. We've now got a prescription for a medicine that slows urine production at night, which is working fairly well. It does mean he needs to be quick at getting to the loo in the morning though!

You need a referral to paediatric enuresis at the local hospital. Bed wetting at this age needs intervention to help, which can range from testing his bladder capacity to improving his day time drinking to trying medication or a sleep
wetting alarm. Don’t be fobbed off, he doesn’t have the hormone at night by the sounds of it but everything else needs to be checked out too by this age.

At 8 it's reasonable to speak to the GP. I used to wake DD up before I went to bed and take her to the toilet, worked quite well.

Thank you everyone, it’s just confirmed my own thoughts that I need to go back to the go and not let them be so dismissive this time thank you ☺️

You need to bladder train him

get him to hold in his wee for as long as possible

My son has been prescribed Desmopressin. It's working really well. You have to be quite strict on bed time and wake up but we've gone from wet bed 7 nights a week to completely dry. He's also had blood work done to test for hypothyroidism. It's not something you can teach them you really need to get some medical intervention.

I can’t imagine that is good idea to be honest, holding can cause more damage

Ignore 👆. I was a bedwetter into my teens ! So wish there had been the help then ,that there is now . Definitely look at ERIC and potentially get referred to Paeds continence team.