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In
most cases, if a child under 5 is dry in the day and wet at night, then
the child is just sleeping too soundly to feel it so the bladder /
brain connection needs some conditioning, as described on our ‘tonight’ page.
If your bed wetter is over five and still wets every night
of the week, then he/she will be one of those who won’t outgrow it for
at least a year or two. As far as we know, one in thirty still wets at
night in the teen years, but the statistics are probably suspect,
because t’s such a ‘secret’ issue that many kids won’t admit it. With
one in thirty admitting to bed wetting, that;s more than 4000 teenagers in Ontario. The secrecy that surrounds bedwetting is frustrating, the more so because we know that it can be fixed. There is no reason for any child to suffer with bedwetting.
Children
over age five or six may have already developed habits that complicate
the treatment. If you’ve already tried the things everyone tries, the
things that never work....- getting a child up in the night, avoiding
drinks in the evening before bed, scolding or rewarding, and nothing has
worked yet, don’t despair! The secret to overcoming stubborn cases of
enuresis is applying several measures simultaneously to get immediate
improvement. This helps to motivate the child to work hard at getting
dry.
DryKids
counselors in Southern Ontario use a multi-modal approach that was
developed by the Try For Dry clinic at Chicago's Memorial Children's
Hospital. Over the last twenty years, this program has had a success
rate of over 95% in helping children to get dry once and for all.
Our
treatment is customized for each child's case. This often results in
dry nights in the first week, and complete success takes one to four
months.. No drugs are involved except in rare cases such as teenagers who have had no success otherwise, and then only with a doctor’s supervision.
If
anyone tells you "don't worry, he/she will outgrow it", just ask
them... when? You can fix it now, it takes a little knowledge and a
little work, but it's worth it to see how proud the child can be when
he/she overcomes the problem.
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