Day and Night Wetting | ADHD Information

My son is 5 yrs old.  The doctor thinks that he may have adhd.  We are getting him into a behavilor center.  He was finally using the potty byhimself about a year ago up till 4-5 months ago when he started just going to the bathroom in his underwear.  When he goes he doesn't tell anyone.  He goes to kindergarten and has accidents there as well.  The teachers and I fight with him to get him cleaned up because he doesn't want to. Says that he's scared all the time, especailly when he doesn't want to do anything.  He's constantly into things.  One day he climbed up my entertainment center and got a little pocket knife that had been there for a year.  Its nothing we use, show off or anything. He got it and cut little slices on his finger.  When it happend I didn't know about the knife yet.  I had asked him how he cut his finger and he said on his brothers bed.  His brother is a toddler and is in a metal toddler bed so I went and felt the frame of the bed to see where it was so i could fix it so my youngest wouldn't get cut as well.  I couldn't find anything, so i figured he just got it just right on it.  A few hrs later i realized that a picture frame was missing and i went to look behind the couch cause they like to throw stuff behind it.  I found the picture frame behind the couch along with the empty box to the knife.  We search our house top to bottom for 3 hrs before finding it.  My kids had a foam couch and he had cut it up, cut a hole in the foam and hid the knife inside the foam.  We tryed everything we could think of to get him to tell us where he put the knife but wouldn't tell anyone.  Anyone have any ideas on what we can do?my son also i a bedwetter at 8 yrs old. his pediatrican asked who was the parent who wet the bed?  so i guess this a hereditary thing. but my siser in law who is a nurse said that children who hold their bms...well this could be a cause of bedwetting too because the bowl can press on the urinary tract?  so we have adapteded and although it doesnt seem to bother him that he is in a pullup....i am the mom of Ps!!!!!!!  pullups or sanitiary Pads...lolI tried the Native Remedies bed-wetting remedy. It did not work. I think I did it for 1.5 months.Here's a factoid:  Did you know that 50% of 18-19yo germans who were enlisted or drafted in WWII were still wetting the bed?  They chalk it up to the repressive toilet training that was going on at this time.

I used the alarm Dri-Nite.  I got it on amazon.com for .  We used it for a month or 6 weeks and had tremendous success.  You attach a clip to the underwear, the part that's going to get wet if he wets.  A wire runs up to a little bag with a battery and alarm that clips to the pajama shirt (I ran the wire under ds's shirt so he wouldn't get tangled up in it).  When the kid wets, the moisture basically completes the circuit and the alarm goes off.  It's really shrill and annoying and even though my ds is a sound sleeper, it woke him up.  With the exception of 2 or 3 times since (3 years) my ds doesn't wet the bed.  During the time we were using the alarm, ds had a snow day from school.  I put the alarm on him during the day because he was sitting playing video games and that was also a problem time.  That also seemed to have an effect.  I couldn't do it very often, but just that one day seemed to help cut down on the accidents he'd have while playing computer games.
http://www.bedwettingstore.com/category_alarms.htm

Check out this site.  The malen thing is what I was talking about, just with a different name.


This watch is an alarm that you can set during the day to remind your kid to do something.  It's got lots of different messages like "take meds," "go potty," "do homework" etc.  My ds was in 4th grade when we tried it.  It worked like advertised but ds had a habit of ignoring that.  I can't blame that on the product and if you think your kid might benefit, try it.

http://www.watchminder.com/
susieb39109.4568055556Have you tried talking to your doctor about this? Sometimes it is a medcal reason for it.  My oldest when he was young would wait til it was too late to get to the bathroom.  He didn't have any accidents at school though.  But when he was about 5 he didn't want to stop playing video games so he peed on the carpet in the play room we had.  Blamed it on the dog til I caught him in the act.  He would get stomach pains from keeping himself from using the bathroom.  He eventually listened to me telling him to pay attention to what his body was telling him.  But it took awhile.  He didn't care when he was in diapers and pullups if he had pee or poop in them.  I swear he was the happiest when they were poopy.  I stopped using the pullups because he figured out they were like diapers and put regular underwear on him.  It helped.  But I would definitely ask my doctor if I were you if there is something going on with him other than not paying attention to himself when the urge first strikes.  I bought a dri-nite alarm on the web and after 3 weeks my 11 yo's nightime wetting stopped.  I also put it on him during the day if he was home just playing computer games.  My ds does the same thing.  He sits at the computer and if he has to pee, he doesn't go to the potty, he just pees his pants!  It's gotten better, but it still happens every 2 mos or so.  He just waits too long!  

If it's not a medical issue, buy him a alarm from www.bedwettingstore.com and have him wear it for the entire weekend when he is awake.It goes off when the sensor comes in contact with liquid or if it is removed by just pulling on it. Works like a charm.

 

Hi, my son was the same way.  He is 8 1/2 now.  He went through a time last year where he would not stop playing his video game in time to urinate or defaecate and he was soiling quite frequently.  This year he is doing allot better.  No wettings or soiling for 6-9 months.  Just reminders to take bathroom breaks.

He still wears pull ups to bed (he'll be 9 in July)  He has had maybe 5 dry nights in his whole life.  He also doesn't care that they are wet.  He would leave them on in the am and just sit in them all day.  He says he likes the warmth when they're wet.  I don't know.

We used to get him up around 11pm and take him to the bathroom, but he still woke up soaked.  And he is such a  deep sleeper we had to carry him and hold him up in a standing position to pee.  Physiologically some kids have enuresis (nocturnal wetting) for a long time. Our pediatrician and psychiatrist are not concerned. Children can even wet into their teenage years. My boss (a woman- and a nurse as am I ) said she wet the bed until she was 18.

We don't fret over it-just adapt. I do feel the day time wetting and soiling is just them being to involved in whatever and not taking breaks so they need reminders.

I know allot of folks on this board feel the night time wetting is an issue and should be dealt with.  I think it's all individual.  If the child's not worried about it-then why should we.  When Erik goes to sleep overs he can secretly put on his pull up.  He usually tries to stay awake most of the night and he stays dry (that's what my boss did as a teenager at sleep overs)

Hi,

I went back and saw alot of posts about this last year but nothing recent !

I was wondering if any of the moms that are still around here and had posted about this before has any good advise for me or ideas that have worked since then.

I am going "crazy" with my 6 yr old Son.    He waits until the very last minute to run to the bathroom and like many of you posted before...he gets wet because its too late !    Lately is happening more and more at school .   3 days so far this week.  He says that is happening at recess time and there is not bathroom outside and he can not run on the hallways so is too late by the time he gets to the bathroom.    I tell him "why do you wait so long"   and I get NO answer ! all he says is "I don't know".   

Also when he is playing video games/computer or watching TV, he does the same.He does not want to stop playing and waits until the last minute.

I am allways reminding him, but I am not allways there next to him !

Also about having BM, I really do not think he goes too often. He holds it a lot too.

He takes Metadate CD 30mgs. once a day.

At night he has ALLWAYS wear pullups.  He has NEVER been dry in the mornings, even if he goes to the bathroom right before bed.

Also, if I leave him in pullups he does not care at all !  It does not matter to him if he is sitting on a wet pullup!

Any advise is greatly appreciated

 

My son currently still wets during the day and night. Its not as bad as it was last year cause now i am homeschooling him and i can remind him. He was in a special ed class and the teacher would not always let him go to the bathroom, and it he had an accident she rather pointed fingers at home then realizing that he is getting distracted by what he is doing and remind him. Which was possible considering there was only 4 kids in the class and a teacher aid. Part of the reason why i am homeschooling. We tried the alarm thing and he played with it too much. What has worked for us is (for us)he had alot of stress in his life and that has gotten better. For those of you who remember my posts you know why. And that whole situation has gotten better. Plus with him taking night medicine to help him go to bed, he wouldn't always wake up to pee. I thank the lord it has gotten better. He is a normal healthy child, we took him to the doctor. Last year he would soak himself about 10times a day and even more when he had visits with his bm, so for us it was alot of stress, and of course not paying attention to his body but rather everything else around him. Doctor increased his meds a little and he know remembers to go most of the time. Plus we got those cold pants where you literally feel the cold and now its time to go peeYes our doctor told us it is very common for adhd children to wet their beds and have day time accidents as well. That normally they grow out of it, as long as it is not a physical problem. I personally wet my bed until i was about 10, but thats cause my bladder was not growing and it would fill up fast and my teachers would not always understand and let me go to the bathroom. I remember going to the doctor and i remember taking medicine but it really didn't help. Time did, it finally caught up with the rest of my body. Always make sure you bedroom is not cold, cause that also seems to make alot of children pee as well. It did with our oldest,

We just picked up Brightspark and Focus for our dd, and I noticed on the website (Native Remedies) that they had something for bedwetting too.  Anyone try anything like that?

Do the alarms really work?  I've considered one for ds, but haven't yet.   

They didn't for us, but i know others that have worked for them. Here is some more advice: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/homeschoolingboys/message/2939 0