What should I do if my child still wets the bed at the age of seven?

For many people, bedwetting is an indelible memory of their childhood. Many people have wet the bed when they were young. In fact, this is a very normal thing. Bedwetting is mainly due to insufficient development of children’s brains. But some children still wet the bed at the age of seven. This is not a good thing for them. So what should we do in this situation? Here are some methods to help you.

Bed-wetting is enuresis. It refers to children over 3 years old who cannot control urination after falling asleep and thus wet the bed unconsciously. Habitual enuresis can make children weak, affect their physical health and intellectual development, and frequent bedwetting can also bring troubles to the family. The clinical manifestations are: deep sleep, difficult to wake up, and unconsciousness after waking up. I sweat a lot at ordinary times, especially at night. The sleeping position is mostly crawling or curled up. Weird temper, timid, introverted personality, dreaming about looking for a toilet, aggravated in winter or rainy days. Bedwetting should be treated as early as possible. About 2% of children with enuresis will continue to have it into adulthood or even for life due to untreated treatment.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that this disease is mostly caused by insufficient kidney qi and coldness in the lower abdomen. Or it may be caused by physical weakness after illness, insufficient lung and spleen. It should be treated by nourishing the kidney, strengthening the spleen and benefiting the lungs. You can use Hua Ning Tang's "Navel Stop Nocturnal Ointment" and apply it on the navel, one application a day, and it will generally heal in half a month to one month. Besides this, what else should we pay attention to in our daily life?

Causes of Enuresis

Most children who wet the bed have insufficient secretion of antidiuretic hormone (AVP) at night, which leads to increased urine production at night.

Children who wet the bed may also have bladder dysfunction, namely reduced functional bladder capacity (commonly known as small bladder) or unstable bladder.

Disorders in the connection between central sleep-wake function and the bladder.

Genetic factors also have a certain impact on children's bedwetting.

Daily precautions for children with enuresis

To prevent children from being difficult to wake up after falling asleep at night, you should be careful not to over-fatigue them during the day, and it is best to arrange an hour of sleep at noon.

Put less salt in dinner, drink less water and soup.

Stop your child from being overly excited before going to bed, and encourage him or her to develop the habit of emptying his or her bladder before going to bed.

Parents should cultivate their children's habit of getting up to urinate consciously. Remind your child to say to himself before going to bed, "I will get up at x o'clock tonight to urinate." Parents can also wake him up before the time when the child often urinates, so that he can urinate while awake.

Training children to hold urine during the day can also be used as a method. Whenever they feel the urge to urinate, they should actively control themselves and not urinate. This can be done by delaying it for a few minutes at first and then gradually extending the time.

Dangers of enuresis

The IQ is lower than that of normal children.

There are many mental illnesses.

Malnutrition.

Low immunity.

There are many "problems" after adulthood.

Things Moms Shouldn't Do After Wetting the Bed

Don't scold

Never scold your baby when they wet the bed. Apart from adding psychological pressure to your baby, scolding does nothing to help reduce bedwetting. You know, bedwetting is inevitable for every child. This is an inevitable part of growing up and will not be omitted because of your scolding.

Don't urinate too early

In order to help their babies develop good urination habits, some mothers begin to deliberately conduct urination training when their babies are only a few months old. However, such a young baby's cognitive and language comprehension abilities are not yet mature, and he cannot withstand complex urination training. Deliberately doing so will cause the baby to wet the bed due to urination disorders.

Don't let your baby sit on the potty for a long time

Some careless mothers wake up their babies at night and let them sit on the potty while playing and peeing. In fact, sometimes babies just sit on the potty and play, and they don’t really want to pee. This makes it difficult for babies to associate urination with sitting on the potty and form a conditioned reflex.

Don't wake up at night

Some mothers worry that their babies may wet the bed, so they wake them up repeatedly at night to ask them to urinate. However, doing so often prevents the baby's bladder from expanding fully, making it difficult for the baby to have a clear urge to urinate. The baby doesn't want to pee, but you force him to pee. How annoying it is for him! Regardless of the baby's crying and struggling, you must make him pee until he finishes peeing before you can leave the potty. This will make him nervous and fearful about peeing.

Precautions

1. Try to give your baby less water before going to bed, and it is best not to eat fruits that are high in water content, such as watermelon, grapes, oranges, etc.

2. Let your baby develop the habit of urinating before going to bed.

3. Don’t let your baby get too excited before going to bed, or watch tense or exciting cartoons.

4. Don’t let your baby play too excitedly during the day, limit outdoor activities, and insist on a 1-2 hour nap every day to prevent your baby from being easily woken up at night.

5. The baby’s bedding should be clean and warm, and should be changed promptly after it gets wet. Wet bedding will make the baby more likely to wet the bed.