Betwetting – Answers To Mothers

Why does a child wet its bed?

Before moving on to the answer, what has to be understood clearly is whether the child has been a consistent bedwetter with there being no dry spell in between or has it been a recent phenomenon.

Both these cases are two very different scenarios. For instance if the child is a habitual bedwetter with never a dry spell in between than the problem is known as primary bedwetting or in medical terms, primary enuresis.

Then there’s the other problem known as secondary bedwetting or enuresis that is characterized by a long dry spell for maybe even a year and then suddenly, the child starts bedwetting. It is generally uncommon for a child to exhibit secondary bedwetting symptoms and is usually the result of some medical anomaly that the child may be going through, for instance psychological stress or trauma. However, this happens to be true in less than 10% of cases.

In most of the cases, it’s primary bedwetting that the child is affected with though a thorough medical examination of the child including that of urine samples does not reveal the reason behind it. So the exact cause of bedwetting continues to be elusive. The only solace that mothers can have is perhaps the fact that one in every five kid of age 5 is known to be bedwetter.