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Bedwetting is neither an illness nor a disease. We all start life as bedwetters and we learn to become
dry. Becoming dry is a skill that we acquire in the same way we learn to talk , walk, ride a bicycle or
swim. Children acquire these skills at different times and we would expect a child to start becoming
dry after the age of 18 months. By the age of 5 years, about 90% of children are dry, by the age of age
of 10 years, about 95% dry and by the age of 13 years, about 98% of children are dry. It is clear that
a bedwetting child has about a 15% chance per year of becoming dry naturally.
The problem is not helped when the pharmaceutical industry imply that bedwetting is a medical
problem requiring the use of expensive and sometimes dangerous drugs. Additionally, results are often
inflated by misreporting slight reduction in the frequency and quantity of wetting, while the child is
still taking the drug, as dryness. They consider 90% as dry but omit to mention that the bedwetting
will revert to its original state if the drug is stopped.
Tricyclic antidepressants: used to treat mood disorders with many serious side effects. It temporarily
suppresses bedwetting in about 50% but relapse rate is 100% once drug is stopped.
Desmopressin, anti-diuretic hormone : Reduces the frequency and quantity of wetting in about 37%
of children while taking the hormone but wetting reverts to it’s original state once the drug is stopped.
Drug prices vary between £30 & £90 per month and every month depending on the dose. Please read
the British National Formulary. The NHS should consider value for money and service to the child.
The old phrase “Do not worry, they will grow out of it” is nearly true, about 2% remain wetting into
adulthood, but not knowing when your child is going to be dry is the major problem for the child and
the family.
Bedwetting alarms alert the brain to the fact that the body is doing an act which is unacceptable.
Making the conscious brain aware of the sensation of passing urine in bed will develop and establish
the natural control of the brain over the bladder so that the child will eventually sleep throughout the
night without wetting or needing to empty the bladder.
Enuresis Alarms achieve permanent dryness by compressing the unknown number of years of wetting
into a maximum of three months. Enuresis alarms start from about £54. Success is guaranteed by
adhering to the:
Golden Rules
1. The child is 100% motivated and wants to be dry.
2. The child understands that waking up to the alarm is the treatment.
3. Parents must initially help the child to wake up when they hear the alarm as all children,
including the dry ones, sleep deeply when at home.
4. The child should drink as much as they like.
5. Parents should not “lift” the child to empty the bladder while asleep.
6. No nappies or pull-ups.
7. Parents must praise and support the child.
Malem Medical manufacture the world’s best and largest range of Enuresis Alarms and Vibrating
Watches for the treatment and permanent cure of Nocturnal as well as Diurnal Enuresis.
Malem Medical, 10 Willow Holt, Lowdham, Nottingham, NG14 7EJ, England, UK
Tel.: 00 44 (0)115 9664440
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