What is the reason why children always wet the bed?

In life, many children have the habit of bedwetting. What is the reason why children always wet the bed? If a child wets the bed for a long time, it will not only cause great psychological harm to the child, but also physical harm to the child. In fact, if a child wets the bed for a long time, it will also affect the child's intellectual and healthy development, leading to poor digestive function, low immunity, picky eating, anorexia, etc. Therefore, if a child wets the bed, you must take the child to the hospital for treatment in time.

Why do children always wet the bed?

1. Delayed development of bladder function: Some children with enuresis have smaller bladder capacity than normal children. These children urinate relatively more frequently but the amount of urine is not much. Patients with underdeveloped bladder function not only have small urine storage capacity, but also poor contraction and urination function.

2. Poor urination habit training: Parents do not properly train their children to urinate, or often wake their children up at night to force them to urinate. These will make young children fear urination and are not conducive to cultivating regular urination habits.

3. Sleeping too deeply: This is a common factor of enuresis. Children of this type often play too much before going to bed and sleep very deeply. They are difficult to wake up and often wet the bed in their dreams. If you drink more water before going to bed, you are more likely to wet the bed. Such patients should go to the hospital in time to check whether their children have arousal disorders.

4. Insufficient secretion of antidiuretic hormone: Antidiuretic hormone is a hormone in the human body. The secretion of antidiuretic hormone increases at night when sleeping to regulate the urinary function of the kidneys and bladder as well as the signal transmission between the kidneys and bladder and the brain. Insufficient secretion of antidiuretic hormone is the main cause of nocturnal bedwetting in many patients. Many adult bed-wetting patients also wet the bed for this reason.

5. Occult spina bifida: Many patients have the problem of occult spina bifida, which leads to signal transmission disorder between the bladder and the brain, thus causing bedwetting.

6. Psychological factors: Family changes, long-term beatings and scoldings from parents, fear and fright at night, and mental stress can all lead to enuresis in children.

What should I do if my child keeps wetting the bed?

Why children wet the bed is a very troubling thing for many parents during their baby's growth process. Regarding children's bedwetting, some parents think that it is the child's "privilege" and they don't need to pay much attention to it, as the child will naturally stop wetting the bed as they grow up. However, some parents are very nervous about this and think it is shameful for a baby to still wet the bed at such a big age.

Ji Lieqin, a pediatrician at Harbin No. 1 Hospital, kindly reminds you: There are many reasons for children's bedwetting, mainly including developmental delay, abnormal sleep, genetic factors, psychological factors and the influence of diseases. Therefore, if your baby still wets the bed frequently after he or she is over three years old, you should take your child to the hospital and ask a professional doctor to diagnose it to rule out whether it is caused by illness or developmental reasons so that timely treatment can be provided. If all the tests are normal, it means that the baby's bedwetting is only functional and temporary, and parents do not need to worry too much.