Eight-year-old child wets the bed

The bed-wetting problem of newborn babies is a very worrying issue for many parents. Babies often have no self-control and are in a period of ignorance where they act according to their mood. At night, many new parents often have difficulty falling asleep because of their baby's hunger and defecation problems. This is very normal and will disappear as your child gets older. When a child still has bedwetting problems at the age of eight, parents should consider whether the child has enuresis.

(1) Diurnal and nocturnal urinary frequency: frequent urination at night, often >1 time, accompanied by daytime urinary frequency. The pathological mechanism is the disorder of bladder urination function regulation.

(2) Arousal disorder type: Arousal disorder is prominent, and there is no frequent urination during the day. The pathological mechanism is the disorder of nerve conduction function regulation.

(3) Nocturnal polyuria: The amount of urine is large at night, but the frequency of bedwetting is not high, and there is no frequent urination during the day. The pathological mechanism is the disorder of nocturnal antidiuretic hormone secretion function.

(4) Hybrid

Different types of enuresis have different pathological mechanisms, and the treatment of enuresis requires clarifying its cause.

1. Genetic factors

If both parents of a child have enuresis, the incidence of enuresis in their offspring is 77%. If one of the parents is single, the incidence of enuresis in the offspring is 25%;

2. Psychological factors

These include children being too tired or overly excited from playing during the day; strong mental stimulation, such as being frightened; feeling anxious, nervous, or being scolded or even physically punished by their parents after occasionally wetting the bed;

3. Disease and physiological factors

Urinary tract infection, kidney disease, local inflammation of the urethra, spina bifida, spinal cord injury, brain dysplasia, small bladder capacity, etc. may all cause enuresis, but enuresis caused by disease accounts for a small proportion;

Parents fail to train their children to develop a good habit of regular urination;

5. The child is sleeping too deeply and is difficult to wake up

When there is urine in the bladder, the urge to urinate cannot be communicated to the brain in time during sleep, and the brain cannot issue a command to wake up in time, so some children cannot wake up and urinate consciously at night;

6. Environmental factors

Including sudden changes in environment and climate change, such as cold. In addition, children drinking too much water before going to bed can cause bedwetting.

Parents should make a preliminary assessment of the possible causes of their children's bedwetting so that they can better help treat their children's bedwetting.