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My 11 year old son is still bedwetting. I WILL NOT use the nasal spray thing (we had to wait almost 7 years for a kidney transplant for my husband, so I don't want anything that messes around with hormones and kidney function).

Has anyone used a bedwetting alarm? What were your results?

Thanks

You should read the book, Waking Up Dry, by Dr. Howard J. Bennett. It's available on the American Academy of Pediatrics website. Lots and lots of great ideas for parents and children to work together to solve this challenging problem. Good luck.My son is 8 and wets the bed. We haven't tried the alarm. If I am extra vigilant and keep fluids away from him for a bout 1.5 hours before bed, and make him go to the bathroom before I go to sleep, then all is well. Sometimes he will sneak water, or worse, soda and then all hope is gone. I just make him wear pull ups. He hates it, but not enough to quit sneaking fluid.we have used the alarm for my 9 1/2 year old, and she is such a sound sleeper, she didn't wake up. She's now on oral ddavp which helps about 75% of the time, but still doesn't kick it completely.

Hi, my son just turned 8 and he still wets the bed. He has had maybe 3 dry nights in his whole life and a couple of those night were because he had kidney problems due to a post strep infection.

Anyway...I don't worry about it. One of the psychiatrist we saw made an issue of it and I felt like that was such a small problem in relation to everything else he was going through. I did buy the above mentioned book and it is on hand for when Erik is ready to work on it. He says he's not ready.

He even tells me he sleeps too soundly and can't wake up. He wears 2 pull ups and we take him to the bathroom just before we go to bed and he still wets through. Until it is an issue for him we don't really talk much about it-it is just a known fact and we put no shame on him.

I am a nurse and my Nurse manager said she wet the bed until she was 17 years old. She use to stay awake all night at sleep overs so it wouldn't happen.

I do not believe I will ever use the alarm. He's not 11 yet but maybe I'll feel differently then.

PS I was a dialysis nurse for several years-I definately support organ donation !

Yeah - dialysis sucks. (our PD nurses were the best part of the whole thing - they were wonderful).

I"m only concerned because he wants to start going on sleepovers, and I don't want it found out because he might get teased. He's been in goodnights for a loong time now.

It seemed like a big issue to me b/c it can affect self-esteem. I know that it embarrassed my son. He was very proud when he stopped.

I went to www.bedwettingstore.com and purchased the alarm that vibrates, flashes red lights, and uses eight alternating sounds when my son turned 6 1/2. He is a sound sleeper so I needed this one. They provide a chart, and tips. I followed all of the instructions. I also bought the expensive mattress cover that holds a pint of fluid from the website. My son stopped urinating in his bed after 2 months. He had some regression, and we put the alarm back on for 10 days every time he wet the bed. He has not wet the bed for about 3 months.

I really think you should give it a try. It may be a small problem to you, but I bet it's a big one to him, especially when he's invited to a sleepover.

Hey, i brought a bed wetting alarm and used it for the first time last night and we had no problems with it! it was the best thing i brought my son woke up dry and in a great mood i reccomend u try one

My son had this problem until it just spontaneously disappeared when he was about 13. We tried limiting the fluids, and he still had problems. The bedwetting alarms didn't work, as he would sleep through them. We tried waking him up two times during the night. However, we finally stopped doing this when his behavior became so strange when we would try to wake him up that we were afraid that he would either hurt us or himself. He was such a sound sleeper that he would not come fully awake when we got him up. He tried to hit me a couple of times, danced in the middle of our steep stairway, and then one night, he started walking across his bed as if it was the floor! He was about 11 years old, and almost as big as me, so after having to catch him as he fell, I gave up trying to actively intervene. He took DDAVP for about 3 years with some success. Our doctor also suggested that we limit his dairy intake after supper. He said that there is something about the dairy products that has a sponge-like quality to it when in the urinary tract. It will absorb the fluids, and then let it go during the night, with disasterous results! We followed this as best we could-he would sometimes sneak milk, yogurt, and ice cream. We did notice a difference on the nights that we were able to get him to comply with this. It might be worth a try.

Good luck with your son. I know that this can be a frusterating problem for parents!

Stopping fluids didn't work for our daughter she quit at 5 on our own. Potty before bed helps. Remember some body parts develope slower than other parts do. Stopping the fluids did not work for my son either.I asked my son why he stopped wetting the bed the other day, he said "because I HATED that sound from the alarm!"i wet the bed until i was about 8 1/2. my mom bought me the beeper thing
and a matress cover, and i had to wear good nights. i stopped wetting the
bed for two years and then when i was about 11, i started wettng the bed
again. so my mom dug out the beeper and bought some more goodnights.
I'm not sure if it worked because i hated wearing pull ups or if the beeper
worked. Anyway I would have a couple accidents a month until i was 14 and
then i finaly quit, and havve had no accidents for 5 years.

I used the alarm with Rebecca when she was 7, it took about 3 or 4 month. She is a very sound sleeper, too, but the alarm woke her up. She was dry for about a year an then she started wetting again. We tryed the ddavp and then imipramine (spelling?), but neither one helped. The pedeatrican said, that bedwetting can run in familys,( my sister was a bedwetter until she was 13 or 14) and she just has to grow out of it. And I guess thats just what happend, she has been dry now for about 4 month. I noticed she has accidents, when I let her stay up longer, or she gets to drink coke or something like that. They usually get only milk or water. Jacob also still wets the bed and wears them good nights. They both know its not their fault and I never make a big deal out of it.

The one thing that makes me angry thou is when Rebecca does wet the bed and she doesn't tell me. I told her lots of times, that I know it's not her fault, but she is old enough to take on the responsibility, to take down her sheets, bring them downstairs and then I will wash them for her. But no! When she ready to climb into bed, she whines her bed is still wet. A few times I made her sleep in the wet sheets hoping she'll learn.

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Has anyone used a bedwetting alarm? What were your results?

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nekochan and others with this problem

stopping the fluids 1 hour before bed is the best way to start with helping.when my boy's was young I would set the alarm for 3am and wake them up to goto the restroom[I know this is very hard if you work] but it helps them get in the habit of waking up togo on there own!!If at 3 it's to late you'll have to find the times he's going.GOOD LUCK!!!

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[QUOTE=SmallMom]You should read the book, Waking Up Dry, by Dr. Howard J. Bennett. It's available on the American Academy of Pediatrics website. Lots and lots of great ideas for parents and children to work together to solve this challenging problem. Good luck.[/QUOTE]

*I was going to order this book but got lucky and she stopped wetting on her own. I talked to her about sleepovers and used to wake her up during the night and limit the drinks prior to bedtime. I cannot explain what changed but it just did, maybe for my girl it was more behavioral.