Why do children wet when they stop DDAVP?
The action of DDAVP is to decrease the quantity of urine produced that night. When the medication is stopped, the body resumes making a larger quantity of more dilute urine. If the bladder has grown to accommodate more urine or your child has learned to wake to messages from the bladder, he may have continued success in staying dry. In most cases, however, the wetting resumes when the medication is stopped. Q: I wake my child and take him to the bathroom before I go to bed.
