Is it normal for a seven year old to wet the bed?

Children are the apple of their parents' eyes, and their parents worry about everything related to them. Children wet the bed because their brain intelligence is not fully developed and they cannot distinguish some problems. It is normal for children to wet the bed when they are young, but if the child wets the bed for a long time, and still wets the bed when the child is older, then parents need to pay attention to the child's developmental problems. So is it normal for a seven-year-old child to wet the bed? The answer is given below.

The dangers of bedwetting

First of all, it will affect the child's physical development. Children who suffer from bedwetting for a long time are generally shorter, thinner or fatter than normal children. They also have difficulty concentrating in class, are hyperactive, have decreased memory, and have an IQ lower than normal children. It will also cause some reproductive and urinary system diseases, which have a great impact on the child's life in adulthood. Furthermore, children who wet the bed for a long time are generally timid, low-self-esteem, withdrawn, and unwilling to communicate with others. Moreover, some parents do not treat their children's bedwetting correctly and beat, scold, and blame them, which aggravates the children's psychological burden, makes the bedwetting more serious, and forms a vicious circle.

Causes of Bedwetting

Genetic factors: If both parents have a history of enuresis, the child has a 70% chance of bedwetting; if one parent has a history, the child has a 50% chance of inheriting the disease; in terms of diet, children drink too much soup for dinner, eat too much diuretic fruits such as watermelon and pear, drink too much water and milk before going to bed, which can cause bedwetting; in addition, children are very active during the day and are too tired, and sleep too deeply at night to get up in time to urinate; parents help their children to urinate during their sleep and do not let their children form the habit of waking up to urinate; patients with delayed bladder development or occult spina bifida can cause bedwetting. The above reasons can exist independently, or they can restrict and influence each other.

Tips for correcting bedwetting

First of all, parents should treat the problem of bedwetting in their children correctly. They should not beat, scold, blame, punish, make fun of their children for bedwetting, or even publicize it in front of outsiders. When the child does not wet the bed, the parents should encourage and praise the child more to help him or her build up self-confidence. The parents should reduce the intake of water, milk, and fruit before dinner or bedtime. The parents should let the child urinate completely before going to bed. The parents should wake the child up to urinate when the child is prone to bedwetting. The parents should try not to let the child move too much during the day, and not let the child get too excited before going to bed at night. The parents can tell the child stories or play some soothing music to help the child fall asleep. For bedwetting caused by illness, the parents should go to the hospital for active treatment.