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    Choosing an Alarm

    Highest Price May Not Be The Best Choice

    There are many bedwetting alarms available, of different types and designs, varying in price from $15 to $150. So which one is best for you?

    Many of the alarms available are designed to sell, not necessarily to work well! If you misunderstand why and how the process works you might pay too much and defeat the purpose, by purchasing one with different tones, vibration, or mattress pad.

    1. Volume

    The sound should be loud enough for parents to hear from another room, and only one sound is necessary. It works by teaching the child to respond during sleep to a repeated sound, so a variety of tones is a bad idea. Introducing another tone will just confuse and prolong the treatment. Ideal: 85db at 3000hz.

    2. User-friendly

    It should be comfortable to wear, and easy for him/her to attach and detach the alarm unit and sensor from the clothing. Depending on the types of sensor, ways to attach the sensor to the clothing are different. The sensors that fit into a mini-pad are a poor choice. We like a soft case type, that hangs inside the shirt, with a snap or mechanical clip onto the underwear.

    3. Comfort

    As the user has to wear the alarm during sleep time, both the size and the weight of the alarm unit are the factors that should also be taken into account.

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    Types of Enuresis Alarms:
    Bedwetting alarms use a sensor that detects wetness in a child's pajamas, then sets off a buzzer. After a few nights, even deep sleepers will start to wake and reflexively stop urinating when the alarm sounds. Soon the child will begin to anticipate the alarm, and wake up to the bladder signal before the alarm sounds.

    4 Steps - 4 Weeks to Dry is the only complete solution on the market. Other alarms include a page of instructions to deal with the "deep sleep" problem. Your chances of success are better and results are faster, if you address the other causes - bladder, genetics, motivation, diet, schedules - at the same time with a complete program.

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    DryKids Kit            "4Steps - 4Weeks" Alarm Program Kit includes:

    • Treatment Guide
    • Nightly Results Charts for motivation and assessment
    • Medical Checklist
    • Healthy Bladder / Healthy Bowel programs
    • Withdrawal / Recurrence Routines
    • Sheet Saver System: no more pullups, no wet sheets!
    • DryKids Alarm System, the one we use ourselves .

    $59 + $10 shipping
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    Book Image The most common bed wetting alarms attach to a shirt near the collar where it can be heard easily. Most of them are hard little boxes with a wire leading down to the underwear, where a sensor is inserted or attached. The DryKids alarm is soft, worn inside the shirt where wire doesn't get tangled.
    Book Image Before purchasing an alarm, determine what type of 'sensor' is included. Some clip on, others insert into mini-pads. Insertion types are messy to use, time consuming in the middle of the night, and frequently fail.
    Book Image You will find the clip type much preferable. Tip: if "extra" sensors are sold on the alarm site, that's tip-off that they aren't reliable. The 'mini-pad' types tend to clog up and fail.
    Book Image The mattress type is useful for bed ridden patients, but this is the wrong choice for children for two reasons: they require lots of urine to reach the pad, and there's only a small chance that the child will be on the pad at all. One brand, Drykids of Australia, is unrelated to us... their pad is a hard plastic affair that a child would especially avoid. It's a bad choice.