Toddlers bed wetting – At what age should it stop?
All around the world, millions of children and teenagers wet the bed every night. Most of them feel there is something wrong with them because of their bed-wetting problem. Parents sometimes feel the bed-wetting reflects poorly on their parenting skills. In a survey conducted by the ICR in 1996, of the nine thousand parents questioned, 22% of them believed their 6-17 year old child wets the bed because of laziness. Although laziness is not the problem for most bed wetters, there are three main reasons that cause children to relieve their bladder during the night. • Some children’s bladders have not fully matured. This lack of muscle strength is what disables them from holding the urine until they are fully awake to go to the bathroom. • Some children have small bladders that cannot hold normal kidney production through the night. • The kidneys of some children produce more urine than a normal sized bladder can hold. The kidneys will do this if there is too much intake of liquids before
