Bed wetting - please help!

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Hello,
Has anyone got any advice out there for helping a 4-year-old stop bed wetting ? My son Thomas is still wetting the bed every night, despite going for a wee before bedtime. Any advice most welcome! Thanks

Has he ever been dry through the night? Or always wet the bed? If it's new then he needs a doctor's trip for a UTI test and to check for diabetes. If he's always done it and never been dry then you just need to wait for him to be ready as nighttime dryness is hormonal.

Honestly, I’d put him back in pull ups and stop worrying about it. He’s only 4. That’s the average age to be dry at night meaning that many aren’t still and it’s perfectly normal. Doctors won’t consider it a medical issue until age 7. Dry at night requires a hormone and unless this is being produced you cannot train him. Big wees and wet early on in the night, he’s likely not producing it yet. If you check as you’re going to bed and he’s dry and it’s small wee around the time he’s waking up then you might be able to get him dry with sometime tweaks like more water in the day to increase bladder capacity, no blackcurrant (it can be an irritant) and waking him 5 minutes early and rushing straight to the loo. But otherwise I’d just let him be, stick with the pull ups to ensure everyone gets a good night’s sleep and chances are it’ll resolve itself and he’ll be dry on his own within the next few months. When he’s been dry for a week, because it can be up and down in the early stages, then and only then remove the pull ups.

Or do you mean he’s been consistently dry at night for years but recently you’ve had a regular run of wetting? That could tiredness from starting school but if it doesn’t resolve soon might be worth a GP visit to rule out a UTI.

Hi everyone,

Thanks for the advice! I think the hormone probably hasn't kicked in yet, as he's rarely been dry through the night so it's not a new thing.

Thanks for responding to my post!