Is it a disease for children to wet the bed at night?

Taking care of a child in all aspects is indeed a time-consuming and laborious task, especially when the child is young, the effort you put in is immeasurable. For example, children wetting the bed at night is very common among young children, but for parents, facing children who wet the bed, they always wonder whether it is a disease. However, it can be said that bedwetting is a normal phenomenon in most cases, but there are still some special pathological factors.

1. Genetic factors

Nocturnal enuresis usually runs in families. If both parents have been nocturnal enuresis patients, their children have a 3/4 chance of wetting the bed. If one parent has a history of bedwetting, their child has a 1/2 chance of developing the condition.

2. Disease factors

Pinworm infestation (irritation of the urethral opening by the worm), urinary tract infection, kidney disease, local inflammation of the urethral opening, spina bifida, spinal cord injury, sacral nerve dysfunction, epilepsy, incomplete brain development, small bladder capacity, etc., but enuresis caused by illness only accounts for a small proportion. For the vast majority of children, bedwetting is related to mental factors, hygiene habits, environmental factors, etc.

3. Deep sleep, unable to wake up in time to urinate

Some children have not received urination training, such as using diapers for a long time, parents do not wake up their children at night, and carry their children to the toilet to urinate, and some parents even help their children urinate while they are sleeping in bed, which causes children to develop the habit of urinating during sleep. Over time, bed-wetting at night is likely to occur.

4. Developmental delay in nighttime bladder control

As patients with nocturnal enuresis grow older, their symptoms may improve and they may stop wetting the bed, but it may take several years to stop. Even 1% of people continue to wet the bed after entering puberty.

5. Environmental factors

Sudden change of environment; climate change such as cold weather, etc.

Not producing enough ADH, the hormone that controls urine flow

In addition, 20-30% of children with nocturnal enuresis cannot produce enough ADH, a hormone that is naturally produced by the human body and can reduce the amount of urine, during sleep.