What should I do if my five-year-old child still wets the bed?

Bedwetting is indeed a very shameful thing, but many people also wet the bed when they were young, which is a very normal thing in itself. But when they grow up and can control themselves, they will not wet the bed again. Well, some children are already five years old and can even be more independent, but they still wet the bed. So, what should you do if your child still wets the bed at the age of five?

1. Develop the habit of urinating before going to bed: Do not let your child drink beverages or water 3 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 be 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.

4. Establish a nighttime urination reflex: In the early stages of treatment, parents should find out when their children are most likely to wet the bed at night, and use an alarm to wake them up half an hour in advance to urinate, so that the wake-up ring and the bladder filling stimulation occur simultaneously. After a period of training, a conditioned reflex will be established, and the child will be awakened by the stimulation of a full bladder at night and can control urination on his own. It should be noted that when waking up a child to urinate, you must make sure he is fully awake and urinates completely while he is awake. Otherwise, it will be difficult for him to establish a conditioned reflex of urination while he is drowsy.

5. Train your baby's bladder function: encourage your child to drink more water during the day, and try to extend the interval between urinations to increase urine output, train your child to hold urine appropriately, and improve bladder control. When children urinate, encourage them to urinate intermittently and then urinate completely to improve the control of the bladder sphincter.

6. Adjust the diet: Do not drink beverages, fruit juice or orange juice during the day. Let children drink less water after 4 pm every day. It is best to avoid eating liquid food or drinking a lot of soup for dinner. It is not advisable to eat watermelon, orange, raw pear and other water-rich fruits after meals. It is not advisable to drink milk before going to bed to reduce the amount of urine stored in the bladder.