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When Bedwetting Isn’t an ‘Accident’

As a pediatric urologist, I know that, as The Times reported recently, the popular laxative Miralax isn’t (gasp!) F.D.A.-approved for children. I still prescribe it daily. I believe Miralax’s active ingredient (polyethylene glycol 3350, or PEG) is safe for kids. The problem isn’t overuse in children; it’s underuse.

Of course children should eat fruits and veggies instead of fries and chicken nuggets; Miralax is no solution to the constipating effects of junk food. But what folks don’t realize is that along with childhood obesity, childhood constipation is epidemic. A stool-stuffed rectum, encroaching upon the bladder, is the main cause of bedwetting, accidents, urinary frequency…

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 When Bedwetting Isn’t an ‘Accident’

Accidents and bedwetting are often dismissed with excuses like, “kids get busy and forget to go” or “he’s a deep sleeper.” But these notions are wrong, and doctors who encourage them — or who underuse laxatives when treating toilet troubles — do children a disservice.

5 Tips For Battling Child Bedwetting

The problem affects roughly 15 percent of children under the age of five. Boys tend to wet the bed more often than girls do, and many older children who wet the bed have one parent that wet the bed as a child. The exact cause of bedwetting is still a mystery. However, there is one thing that experts agree on: bedwetting is not the child’s fault.

5 Ways to Disagree With Your Doctor About Bedwetting Treatment

Enemas are not a popular bedwetting treatment — no question there! And X-raying children for constipation is not a common practice. It’s tough for me to persuade my own colleagues that enemas work much better than MiraLAX and that X-rays are warranted for enuresis patients.

50 Shades of Sleep: Dealing with Bed Wetting

There can be many reasons that can contribute to this problem, but often it is a matter of the child being a deep sleeper. Studies support the notion that bedwetters often sleep soundly and are difficult to arouse so that the bladder signals are ignored because of deep sleep.

6 Damaging Myths About Bedwetting and Accidents

Following are six damaging yet extremely common myths about children who wet or poop in their pants. When adults buy into these myths, kids miss out on treatments that will actually fix their problems. Worse, children absorb blame and feel shame for medical problems that are in no way their fault.

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Renee Mercer is a Certified Pediatric Nurse Practitioner specializing in the treatment of children with enuresis, or bedwetting. She sees children with bedwetting and daytime wetting in her private practice, Enuresis Associates, in Elkridge, Md. Renee has more than 20 years of experience in pediatrics and developed her interest in enuresis after appreciating the great unmet needs of children with bedwetting.

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Bedwetting (nocturnal enuresis) can be cured. Enuresis is caused by a deep sound sleep disorder. OUR PROGRAM WILL CORRECT THE PROBLEM OF BEDWETTING.

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The multimodality treatment that was developed by Dr. Sagie is unique and based on clinical and research experience in the last thirty years with more than 30,000 patients with enuresis ages four to thirty-five.

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Some factors are thought to make bedwetting worse or more likely. Some of these factors are always there; others may tip the balance in some children on some nights.

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Bedwetting (also called nighttime or nocturnal enuresis) is a common childhood problem. Children learn to control daytime urination as they become aware of their bladder filling. Once this occurs, the child then learns to consciously control and coordinate his or her bladder. This generally occurs by four years of age. Nighttime bladder control usually takes longer and is not expected until a child is between five and seven years old.

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