What should I do if my child can’t hold his urine?

Normally, many children have varying degrees of difficulty holding their urine, and some even wet the bed at night. In fact, there are many reasons why babies cannot hold their urine. If they are too tired during the day and feel the urge to urinate at night, it will be difficult to wake up once they fall asleep, which can cause urination. Below, the editor will introduce some effective measures to improve children's bedwetting.

Adjust the method to improve the baby's bedwetting problem

1. Use the most basic method. Although the effectiveness of simple coping measures such as "holding up the child to pee" has not been deeply proven, it is still one of the ways to improve children's bedwetting problems. It can help children regain their self-esteem and confidence, and thus further overcome the problem.

2. Pay attention to your child’s water drinking. In addition to making sure your child is drinking enough water, pay attention to what he's drinking. Studies have shown that some drinks can make children more likely to wet the bed. You can record what your child drinks last each night to see if he is more likely to wet the bed after drinking juice, water, or milk.

3. Make a star reward chart for your child. If your child does not wet the bed all night, give him a sticker star and stick it on the reward chart. This is a very effective method. This approach is also quite effective. The key is not to set the requirements for obtaining rewards too far away, and never punish children for their mistakes and "accidents."

Whatever you do, don't put pressure on your baby or punish him. He did nothing wrong. Whether your baby doesn't wet the bed all night or has to get up to go to the bathroom, not wetting the bed at night is a developmental skill that almost all babies can do in time.

While you're waiting for your baby to grow out of the bed, be sure to protect the mattress with something like a changing mat, or have your baby wear pull-ups and other training pants. Also, urge him to get up immediately when he realizes he has wet the bed. You should also change his pants and bed sheets promptly to prevent urine from irritating his skin. Also, this will get him used to sleeping in dry pajamas.

Generally, babies who wet the bed more than once a night will first reduce the number of times they wet the bed each night, and then reduce the number of days per week they wet the bed. Of course, there will be repetitions in the process. Then your baby will eventually stop wetting the bed altogether. However, the whole process may take several years.

How to treat bedwetting in children

Children who wet the bed have insufficient kidney qi, which means their nervous system is incompletely developed, and they also have problems such as poor bladder sphincter function (inability to hold urine), weak spleen and stomach, etc. The above reasons may exist alone or interact with each other. A specific diagnosis by a doctor is required, and Chinese medicine treatment should be carried out according to the child's physical constitution. Due to the long course of treatment, the Chinese medicine can be processed into pastes or powders for oral administration. For older children, it can be made into water pills and taken according to the course of treatment.

Therefore, when children cannot hold their urine and are prone to bedwetting during a long vacation, they should be taken to the hospital for examination in time, and then receive relevant treatment under the doctor's advice. They should also actively take care of them at ordinary times and try not to put too much psychological pressure on their children to avoid making the treatment more difficult and being detrimental to the recovery of the disease.