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Is your child wetting the bed?

Bed wetting is common in young children who are learning to control the need to urinate during sleep.

By: DoctorNDTV | Jul 18, 2011 10:04

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Bed wetting is common in young children who are learning to control the need to urinate during sleep. It may be due to a family history of bed wetting.
The child may be having difficulty waking up from sleep or under physical or emotional stress.
There could be a urinary tract infection causing bed-wetting.
There may be functional or structural causes leading to wetting. These include a hormonal imbalance or an abnormality that affects the spinal cord, urethral valve in boys or abnormal opening of ureter in girls or boys.
Reducing fluids before bed and having your child go to the bathroom when starting the bedtime routine (and again just before sleep) will often help reduce bed-wetting.

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