Home remedies for bedwetting

Home remedies for bedwetting

What is bedwetting?

It can be an embarrassing experience for children to wake up in bed feeling wet from urinating. It can also be very painful for parents to watch their children go through this experience. Bedwetting is a common condition that is not only physiological but also has psychological effects.

Bedwetting or enuresis is a condition in which children over five years of age involuntarily urinate at night. This condition is not accompanied by any disease and affects 15% to 20% of children, 2% to 3% of teenagers, while 0.5% to 2% of adults also suffer from this condition.

Bedwetting usually occurs at night while sleeping. Generally, children with nocturnal enuresis (nocturnal enuresis) do not have daytime enuresis. However, it is estimated that almost 10% of children may experience daytime wetting symptoms in addition to nighttime wetting.

Causes of bedwetting

Children who tend to wet their bed rarely notice the involuntary urination. This happens due to various factors. Some of them are:

• Unfähigkeit, aus dem Schlaf aufzuwachen
• Überaktive Blase
• Verzögerte Kontrolle der Blase
• Verstopfung
• Konsum von koffeinhaltigen Getränken wie Kaffee oder Tee
• Psychologische Probleme
• Genetische Faktoren
• Nasale Obstruktion, Schlafapnoe
• Inkontinenz ohne Kontrolle über Stuhlgang oder Wasserlassen

Home remedies for bedwetting

Behavioral remedies and educational strategies should be tried before resorting to medication. Complementary therapy may also play a role in preventing bedwetting.

Below are some home remedies for bedwetting:

Rules of conduct

There are preventive measures that can be taken to curb the bedwetting habit. Some of the measures include:

Reward program:This is one of the first measures taken when training young children to bedwetting. Children are rewarded when they have a dry night, which makes them feel encouraged to continue this positive progress. The downside, however, is that children can be disappointed and discouraged if they regress and have a wet night that causes them to lose their reward.

Urinate twice before bed:The child is asked to urinate just before getting ready to go to bed. After the child is in bed, the child needs to urinate again just before going to sleep.

Reduce fluid intake in the evening (withdrawal):The child is encouraged to drink plenty of fluids during the day. However, fluid intake is restricted until the evening. This allows the child to empty the bladder before bedtime.

Improve bladder capacity– Reduced bladder capacity can make the bladder unable to hold nighttime urine, leading to bedwetting. Increasing bladder capacity can help the child overcome bedwetting. During the day, the child is made to hold urine a little longer to increase bladder capacity.

Using a night lamp:Children can be encouraged to use the toilet at night by keeping a night lamp on. This can help dispel the fear of darkness that prevents children from going to the toilet.

Timed urination:On a schedule, the child is made to wake up at night to urinate. This helps create an internal clock for the child to get into a urination routine and prevent bedwetting. This can also help older children, teenagers, and adults wake up and urinate. Some parents use a code word with the child while waking them up to ensure that the children are awake when they urinate.

Alarm:Children must sleep on mattress pads or mats that have electric alarms built into them to detect urine falling on them. There are also alarms that attach to the body using sensors in underwear. The alarms are either light devices or alarms with vibrations or sounds.

Overtraining:Individuals begin drinking excess fluids before bed to fill the bladder and use the alarm to understand that the bladder needs to be emptied. The alarm training is carried out for two weeks so that the body recognizes the change in bladder retention.

Carrying the child:Parents try to encourage the child to urinate and empty the bladder while sleeping to avoid bedwetting. This process is called “lifting”.

Behavioral and educational strategies for dealing with bedwetting

Training in a dry bed:In this training, the children are woken up every hour during the night to urinate. In the event of an accident, 45 minutes are spent cleaning up (cleanliness exercise) and positive training is carried out, during which the child goes to urinate almost nine times. In the following days, the child is only woken once or twice a night.

Complete home training:This includes a combination of alarm, overactivity training, potty training, and dry bed training.

Diet, psychotherapy and complementary or alternative therapies for bedwetting

Diet:Avoid caffeinated drinks. Drinks containing caffeine cause a greater risk of bedwetting because they act as stimulants. More research data is needed to understand the effect of some foods on bladder retention. Constipation can also be an underlying cause of bedwetting, and the use of stool softeners is recommended.

Psychotherapy:Children who have psychological problems undergo psychotherapy. The therapist tries to understand the emotional disorder that causes the child to constantly wet the bed. Measures are taken to modify the factors that may cause this emotional disorder.

homeopathy: Children can be treated with homeopathy to relieve the symptoms of bedwetting, but clinical research needs to confirm the effectiveness of this therapy. Homeopathic medicines work by controlling the muscles of the bladder, controlling the function and control of the bladder. This eliminates involuntary urination and reduces anxiety in a child. Homeopathic medicines are an attractive alternative because they are sweet, natural and safe for children.

acupunctureandChiropracticare other forms of therapy that can be given against bedwetting. However, the effectiveness of such therapies needs to be verified through further research studies.

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