Why do children urinate frequently at night?

Many children, who are five or six years old, still have more urine at night, and even have symptoms of bedwetting. Most parents think that their children sleep too deeply at night and cannot wake up when they need to urinate. In fact, there are many reasons why children urinate more at night. Generally speaking, it has a lot to do with nocturia. There are also some other diseases. Let me introduce to you the reasons why children urinate more at night!

It could be nocturia, a condition characterized by involuntary urination. It often occurs at night when one is soundly asleep, and the person often urinates in a dream without waking up after urinating.

There are many reasons for frequent urination, which may include the following:

1. Increased urine volume: Under physiological conditions, such as drinking a lot of water, the urine volume will increase due to the increase in water intake, and the number of urination will also increase, resulting in frequent urination. Under pathological conditions, such as some patients with diabetes and diabetes insipidus, they drink a lot of water, urinate a lot, and urinate frequently.

2. Inflammatory stimulation: Acute cystitis, tuberculous cystitis, urethritis, pyelonephritis, vulvitis, etc. can all cause frequent urination. Under the stimulation of inflammation, frequent urination, urgency and pain may occur at the same time, which is called urinary tract irritation syndrome.

3. Non-inflammatory irritation: such as urinary stones, foreign bodies, etc.

4. Reduced bladder capacity: such as bladder space-occupying lesions, compression from the enlarged uterus during pregnancy, tuberculous bladder contracture, or large bladder stones.

5. Psychoneural urinary frequency. You need to go to the hospital for further detailed examination to clarify the cause and carry out targeted and effective treatment. Different treatment methods are chosen depending on the cause of frequent urination.

How to prevent bedwetting in children:

1. Develop the habit of urinating before going to bed: Do not let your child drink beverages or water 2 hours before going to bed, and develop the habit of urinating before going to bed.

2. Don't let your child get too excited before going to bed: Let your child go to bed on time every day. Don't tease him too much before going to bed, don't do strenuous activities or overly exciting games, and don't watch stimulating movies and TV shows, so as to avoid overexcitement of the brain and induce bedwetting at night.

3. Don’t let your child get too tired during the day: Keep a regular daily routine, avoid excessive fatigue and mental stress during the day, and it’s best to take a nap to prevent being too tired and sleeping too deeply at night. It will make it difficult for your child to wake up when he needs to urinate, and it will also be difficult for him to be awakened by his parents.

If a child wets the bed, it is best to take the child to the hospital for a check-up to find out whether it is caused by a physical illness. If it is pathological, timely treatment is very necessary. In addition, it is also important for children to develop good sleeping habits. It is best not to let children drink too much water before going to bed, and to regulate their work and rest schedule.