What to do if your 11-year-old child wets the bed

For an 11-year-old child, if the bedwetting phenomenon suddenly occurs, it is very abnormal, because 11-year-old children already have a sense of shame. When they find themselves wetting the bed, they will feel particularly guilty. And if this phenomenon occurs frequently, it means that the child’s urinary system must have a disease. Therefore, parents should pay attention to their children’s health and try not to give them water after 4 pm. So what should you do if your 11-year-old child wets the bed?

Bed-wetting is usually caused by bad living habits and can be corrected through patient education, explanation and comfort. First of all, we need to help children understand that enuresis is a temporary functional disorder and that it can be cured by eliminating the mental burden and cooperating with treatment.

1. To prevent your child from being difficult to wake up after falling asleep at night, you should be careful not to be overly tired during the day. It is best to arrange an hour of sleep at noon.

2. Put less salt in dinner, drink less water and soup.

3. Stop your child from being overly excited before going to bed, and encourage your child to develop the habit of emptying his or her bladder before going to bed.

4. Parents should cultivate their children's habit of getting up to urinate consciously. Remind your child to say to himself before going to bed, "I will get up at x o'clock tonight to urinate." Parents can also wake him up before the time when the child often urinates, so that he can urinate while awake.

5. Training your child to hold urine during the day can also be used as a method. Whenever you feel the urge to urinate, you can actively control yourself and not urinate for a few minutes at the beginning and gradually extend the time.

During the treatment process, frequent encouragement of children can strengthen their confidence and achieve twice the result with half the effort. Give praise and encouragement to children who do not wet the bed on a certain day. This will increase their enthusiasm for participating in treatment. in addition. Parents should never blame, ridicule, mock or punish their children.

For children with various functional enuresis, traditional Chinese medicine divides bedwetting into kidney qi deficiency type, spleen and lung qi deficiency type, liver meridian damp-heat type, and heart-kidney disharmony type.

1. Children with insufficient kidney qi may suffer from enuresis and may wet the bed several times every night. Their urine is clear and has little odor. They urinate frequently in cold weather. They have pale complexion, lack of luster, fatigue, cold limbs, fear of cold, or weakness in the lower limbs. Their intelligence is slightly lower than that of children of the same age. They also have pale tongue with a slippery white coating. The treatment needs to warm and nourish the kidney yang. The Chinese medicine that can be used is: 15 grams of Alpinia oxyphylla, 10 grams of Psoralea corylifolia, 15 grams of Poria cocos, 10 grams of Cornus officinalis, 10 grams of Cuscuta australis, 10 grams of Schisandra chinensis, 10 grams of Silkworm Cocoon, and 5 grams of Cinnamon Bark.

2. If the child, in addition to enuresis, also has some symptoms of lung and spleen deficiency, such as shortness of breath, fatigue, sallow complexion, loss of appetite, unformed stool, sweating after slight movement, pale tongue with thin white coating, etc., then the spleen and lungs should be nourished to consolidate urination. The prescription that can be used is: 10 grams of Codonopsis pilosula, 10 grams of Astragalus, 15 grams of Atractylodes macrocephala, 15 grams of Alpinia oxyphylla, 5 grams of Ginkgo, 5 grams of Bupleurum, 15 grams of Dioscorea batatas, 10 grams of Linderae scutellariae, 5 grams of Chicken gizzard lining, and 10 grams of Euryale ferox.

3. The heart-kidney disharmony type is characterized by enuresis in dreams, restless sleep, irritability and shouting, more movement than rest during the day, or hot palms and soles, emaciation, red and prickly tongue tip with thin coating. The patient should clear the heart and nourish the kidney. The prescriptions that can be used are: 10 grams of raw rehmannia, 10 grams of bamboo leaves, 5 grams of coptis chinensis, 5 grams of cinnamon, 5 grams of licorice, 10 grams of polygonatum, 10 grams of polygonatum, 10 grams of silkworm cocoon, 15 grams of Alpinia oxyphylla, and 10 grams of calamus. Dietary therapy recipe: 1 pig bladder, 15 grams of Alpinia oxyphylla, 15 grams of coix seed, and 15 grams of lotus seeds. Cut open the pig bladder, clean it, put the above medicine in it, stew it in a pot, add appropriate seasoning and serve. Take once a day for 5 to 6 days.