Why do children urinate frequently at night?

I believe that anyone who has been a mother knows this. Bedwetting is a very common occurrence among children, especially at night. However, if your child still has frequent urination at night as he grows older, you may start to worry about what is going on. Don’t worry, let me tell you what is going on when children urinate frequently at night.

What is the reason why children urinate frequently? Generally speaking, babies can start to control urination at night when they are 1 or 1 and a half years old, and the bed-wetting phenomenon has been greatly reduced. However, some children can only control urination during the day and often wet the bed at night when they are 2 years old or even 2 and a half years old. This is still a normal phenomenon. Most children will no longer wet the bed at night after the age of 3. Enuresis refers to enuresis at least once a week after the age of 5, and does not include occasional bedwetting.

What causes children to urinate frequently? There are many reasons. Although some diseases can cause children to suffer from enuresis, for most children who wet the bed, bedwetting is a functional problem. As long as parents pay attention to care and eliminate factors in life that may cause children to wet the bed, children's bedwetting can be corrected.

Some children have bedwetting due to genetic factors. This situation mostly occurs in boys. The children's fathers also often wet the bed when they were young. The bedwetting caused by this situation sometimes heals itself during puberty.

What is the reason for children to urinate frequently? Diseases include: pinworm infestation (irritation of the urethral opening by the worms), 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 disease only accounts for a small proportion. For the vast majority of children, bedwetting is related to mental factors, hygiene habits, environmental factors, etc.

Mental factors include: the child is too tired or overly excited from playing before going to bed; the child has been frightened or is even afraid of being scolded for wetting the bed, etc.

After reading the above article. I believe everyone has a certain understanding of why children urinate frequently at night. Only after finding out the root cause of a child's frequent urination at night can we provide symptomatic treatment based on the cause. This can also fundamentally solve the problem of children's frequent urination at night.