A bedwetting teen back in diapers – Could be a serious medical problem

A bedwetting teen back in diapers is a stressful situation both for the teen and the parents. Even if you are concerned, you should never let your fears transfer to the child. However, you should try to be as sensitive as possible because any teen that has to wear diapers for a bedwetting problem does not feel very good about the situation. He/She knows there is a problem and the stress of worrying about the possibility of bedwetting could actually make the situation worse. When you have a bedwetting teen back in diapers, you need to look very carefully at the diet, the amount of liquids consumed, any stressful triggers and any medication that he/she might be taking.

One thing that you should do with a bedwetting teen back in diapers is to take the teen for a full check up by the doctor. This will help to rule out any medical problems, which could be causing the bedwetting, especially if this is something new that has developed. Once the doctor has done necessary tests to rule out diabetes, problems with the excretory system, then he/she will help you look for solutions to help the bed wetting teen back in diapers. While disposable diapers and pull ups do help the teen in situations where others might find out about the bedwetting, bedwetting diapers are not a cure for the problem.

A bed wetting teen back in diapers will probably try to hide that fact that he/she is wetting the bed. This is easy to do by changing the bed early each morning while you may be wondering where all the laundry is coming from. If you try to be sensitive, you can have a stack of bed sheets handy so the young person can do this without being conspicuous to others in the house. You do have to be careful you don’t let the teen know that you are worried because a bedwetting teen back in diapers can pick up these vibes quite easily. Point out that it is not his/her fault, but that you need to consult with a doctor just to make sure there is nothing wrong.

With bedwetting teens in diapers, if you make cleaning up a form of punishment, this will make the teen more uncomfortable. He/She will dread waking up in the morning just in case they find that the bed is wet. If you discuss the problem and discuss possible solutions along with bedwetting diapers, chances are the teen will be very receptive to various bedwetting solutions. Behavior modification may be one method you can use with the many models of bed wetting alarms that are on the market. These will help a bedwetting teen back in diapers to wake up at the first sign of moisture so that he/she can get to the bathroom in time.

There are also medications to help a bedwetting teen back in diapers. One of these is DDAVP, a medication that works by reducing the amount of urine that the body produces during the night. According to the research results of this medication, bed wetting teens back in diapers relish the thought of something to help ensure they do not wet the bed. They may use bedwetting diapers when they first start taking this medication because they are not sure if it will work or not. However, a bedwetting teen back in diapers usually has low levels of the hormone that regulates the amount of urine their bodies produce and the DDAVP helps to bring this into the normal range.

-By: Peter Crump

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Bedwetting diapers are not just for infants and babies. They come in sizes all the way up to adult so that any one with a bed wetting problem can feel secure that he/she will not wake up to wet sheets in the morning. Along with ensuring you or your child a dry night, wearing diapers at night means you also have less mess to clean up. These diapers are disposable, so they won’t add to your mounds of laundry. Actually, disposable bedwetting diapers will cut down on the amount of laundry that you have to do because you will no longer have to wash bedclothes each day.

Even with having bedwetting diapers for your child, you still have to pursue other methods for treating the problem of bed wetting. These diapers can give the child or adult a false sense of relief and not really do anything to help the problem at all. If there is a medical reason for the bedwetting, you know that using bed wetting diapers will probably be only a temporary measure. If there is no medical reason, then you need to combine using an adult bed wetting diaper each night with a method of behavior modification such as using an enuresis alarm to wake the wearer at the first sign of moisture.

There are bedwetting diapers that look just like underpants. This makes it much easier for your child to sleep at a friend’s house without anyone knowing about the bedwetting. These diapers have an absorbent liner that soaks up the urine and does not let it seep through to the pyjamas or the bedclothes. However, if the child is in bed for a long time, there is the possibility that some of the urine will seep out through the legs of the diapers causing an accident. The top layer of plastic on a bedwetting diaper helps to keep the moisture away from the skin.

You do have to be aware of the cost involved in using larger size disposable bedwetting diapers. This is why you do need to look for treatments that will not only reduce the number of bedwetting episodes, but will help cure the problem. There are child and adult bed wetting diapers that you can get that are reusable. This type of diaper is a cheaper alternative to the disposable bed wetting diaper. It also comes like a pair of underpants or a liner that fits on the underpants. With these adult bedwetting diapers, the person still feels wet, but the wetness does not seep through to the clothing. The wetness helps to wake the adult up so he/she can go to the bathroom.

You do have to choose the best bedwetting diapers for your child. Look at the liners, diapers and absorbent underpants to determine which one would best meet the needs of the child or adult. Liners are strips of absorbent material that have a sticky side that adheres to the underpants, thus keeping them in place. They are not noticeable and will not irritate the skin in the same way as some bedwetting diapers will.

-By: Peter Crump

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Bedwetting is a common problem among children. In fact, 15% of all children who wet their beds eventually stop within a year without treatment. However it’s always best to consult a physician anyway to make sure it’s nothing serious.

There are many things your child can do to make sure they stay dry throughout the night. For starters, do not let your child drink anything after dinner and always make sure they use the bathroom before going to bed.

If your child does wet the bed, try to get them involved in the cleanup process, this sets them up psychologically, not to embarrass them, but to take ownership of their mess, creating a psychological cue that may prevent any further messes. Remember not to make them feel ashamed, it is normal for children to wet their bed.

Physicians agree that the best way to treat bedwetting is to create a regimen that helps your child to remember two very important things: waking up so they can use the bathroom. And staying asleep and holding their urine until the morning.

In addition, the regimen should include very simple bladder exercises. Having your child hold their urine just a bit longer during the day, instead of going immediately when they have a urinating sensation, but not too long as that can cause damage to their bladder. Also, having them maintain a mental image of staying dry and a positive “can do” attitude helps a lot.

There are also alarms that you can use that “train” your child’s brain and condition them to be aware of their bedwetting to help them overcome their situation. The alarm is attached to a pad that senses moisture and sets off the alarm. This alarm helps in creating a cue for your child to be aware of their bedwetting. Remember, in most cases children are unaware that they are wetting their beds when it happens.

Bedwetting medicine is also available. Just remember that these medicines are not a cure, and are best used with a regimen to stop bedwetting.

Stopping bedwetting is about mental control; teaching your child mental cues of when they are wetting their bed so that they can be aware of their problem. It takes time and patience and most importantly, a lot of love.

-By: Ben Phoenix

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My daughter is 9 years old and she wets the bed…there, it’s out, I’ve said it. I feel relieved almost like attending bedwetters anonymous. But why should I or my child feel like it’s an act of contrition? The simple answer is that you should not. There is nothing to feel ashamed of. In fact it is relatively common (5 to 7 million children aged 6 years or older in the US alone) and part of the growing up process. Much more important, however, is how we – parent and child – deal with it.

The official name for bedwetting is primary nocturnal enuresis and you should know that, in most cases, there is no medical cause for bedwetting. It’s just a delay in maturation in the way the brain and bladder communicate with each other at night. The problem is not the urination itself but the aftermath. This can be frustrating, annoying and embarrassing for all concerned. Not only is there the practical issues of wet pajamas, sheets and the nightly wake-up but it can also affect your relationship with your child, her own self-image and her interaction with other children. Here are 9 truths and myths to know and how to deal with them.

1. Myth: Ancient “cures” include an elixir made from boiled mice, wine made from hare’s testicles and the Navajo tribe believed in standing naked over a burning nighthawk nest. All very humorous but clearly mythical!
2. Truth: It is presumed that bedwetting is an inherited condition – it’s in the genes. 3 out of 4 bedwetters have a parent, aunt, uncle, grandparent or other family member has the condition. It is worth finding out and talking about it, this will help your child to fell a family association with the problem.
3. Myth: Bedwetters are lazy and do it on purpose. Not only is this completely false but it can be extremely damaging to your child as it can make a her feel bad about herself. Bedwetting is not something a child can consciously control.
4. Truth: Your child’s bladder is not unusually small. Studies show bedwetters have normal sized bladders. Your child may get a strong contraction before the bladder is full and therefore have the urge to urinate. Bladder control training and Start/Stop urination exercises during the day may help.
5. Myth: Using pull-ups at night only prolongs bedwetting. This will not have any effect on the gradual resolution of the problem; it will however help out with laundry issues. On the other hand, if you’re like me, giving your child a semblance of normality by wearing pajamas will help her conditioning. You can always put down a plastic sheet to minimize the mess.
6. Truth: There may be a medical cause. This is more unusual but may occur. Some bedwetters have insufficient kidney hormones that make less urine while they sleep. Other complaints include urinary tract infections, constipation, diabetes and spinal cord abnormalities. There are medications for most of these ailments and a brief trip to the doctor can address this quickly.
7. Myth: Drinking too much before bedtime causes bedwetting. It does make sense to limit the amount your child fluid intake; say to 2 ounces in the last two hours before bedtime and cut out caffeine, which is a natural diuretic (remember cola has caffeine). But this is not an underlying cause for bedwetting.
8. Truth: Reinforcement and conditioning does help. This includes involving your child and teaching her responsibility. Things like helping to clean up, taking pajamas and sheets to the laundry, setting up a chart with dry days and privileges. Also try night-lifting; teaching your child to awaken and empty her bladder during the night. You may even want to try an alarm system that triggers when underwear is wet.
9. Final Truth: Work as a team. As parent and child it is important to understand the problem and respond appropriately. Even if there is nothing to be done except wait until she outgrows it, she needs to know that you’re on her side. Work on it positively and as part of a team. This will avoid unnecessary suffering and improve her self esteem.

Of all the things that can affect your child, bedwetting is by no means the worse. As a Mom the best advice is to be patient, sympathetic and work on the problem together. That way your relationship with your child remains unharmed, she’ll get along better with her friends and your attempts to reduce bedwetting will be more likely to succeed. Your job as a parent is to be nurturer and coach; there is no better time to demonstrate those traits than now

-By: Lisa-Marie Dowler

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Long before I had children of my own – when I still possessed my na?ve and romantic notions about family life – my husband and I were weekend guests of a couple with four, almost-grown children. The evening’s entertainment was their endless collection of child-rearing anecdotes. One of the consistent themes: their kids’ former struggle with bedwetting.

My friend groaned as she recalled soggy toddlers crawling into her bed each morning and the never-ending loads of smelly bed sheets. In an effort to lighten her load (no pun intended) and instill a good work ethic in her children, she required them to make their own beds. That is, unless they wet their sheets. In case of an accident, the sheets would have to be washed, which eliminated the child’s bed-making chore for the day.

One day she discovered one of her children using this to his advantage, by standing on his pillow and peeing on his sheets. While fully awake.

While she was able to “cure” the bedwetting problem for that child, she had another child who never could stay dry through the night, even when she promised he didn’t have to make his bed.

For that child, she went straight for the “Scientific Solution”: a moisture-sensing alarm.

That’s right. An alarm that vibrates and blares like a fire engine when the child starts to wet, theoretically waking him up so he can relieve himself in the restroom.

I didn’t believe her. At all.

In fact, the family dog accidentally tripped their house alarm that night, and I made a big joke about it the next morning. “It wasn’t me,” I announced. “I’m dry.”

I forgot all about that funny evening until years later, one of my own children was having a difficult time staying dry at night. And by difficult time, I mean wetting the bed every night, and not reporting it until morning wake-up.

(While it may not seem like an urgent problem, kids who wet the bed are quite concerned about it. Especially when they are old enough to start spending the night at friends’ house. And I’ll admit, my graciousness as a host to my kids’ friends is quickly depleted when I discover a wet sleeping bag.)

I decided to become proactive about the issue and began researching the causes and treatments for bedwetting. And, I discovered my friend had been on to something with that moisture-sensing alarm. Seems enuresis is often a sleep disorder. Kids (and some adults) sleep so deeply, they can’t wake up enough to get up and go. And although, after spending months training a child to sleep through the night, it seems counterintuitive to train them wake up, in this case, it’s the solution.

Companies manufacture these alarms and give them all kinds of cutesy names – Dri-Sleeper Excel, Easy-on Gear, Dry Buddy, or the not-so-encouraging Try-for-Dry. Some vibrate, some do the fire-engine siren, and some do both.

You guessed it: I ordered one.

As we hooked up my child to Dry Buddy, there was a sense of relief: this problem had a solution. I kissed my child goodnight.

“Honey, when we hear the alarm, we’ll come help you get up,” I said.

Since we were unable to test the alarm or adjust the volume, I was actually a little concerned I wouldn’t wake up when it went off – that is, until 3 a.m., when it violently shook the entire house. Every family member including the dog came running to the bed of the sensor-wearing child who continued sleeping peacefully even as my husband carried the limp kid to the restroom, assisted in the necessities, and then tucked the child back into the dry bed.

The next morning, the child had no recollection of the night’s events.

When I called the customer support center, the very kind physician didn’t seem very concerned. In fact, I think he was laughing a little.

“Let me guess, everyone woke up except the child?” he asked.

Right.

Eventually, the alarm worked and I am happy to report I haven’t changed a wet bed in some time. In fact, I don’t even know where Dry Buddy is.

Since then, I’ve found there’s a rather large underground club for parents of Kids Who Wore the Potty Alarm. A friend with four boys said she had to order a new one for her youngest.

“Eventually all that urine makes them corrode,” she told me.

I have talked to numerous parents who have kept the Potty Alarm industry in business, and swear by the results. Quietly.

It’s not that we’re embarrassed; it’s just that we don’t want our children to be.

And while there is nothing outwardly obvious to indicate this particular child of mine was a bed-wetter, I’ve noticed my Dry Buddy kid never puts a cell phone on “vibrate” in a pocket. And whenever an emergency vehicle drives by the house with the siren blaring, he’ll quietly leave the room; seconds later, I’ll hear the restroom door close.

Another happy customer.

-By: Hallie Bandy

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Moisture detector alarms are among the most effective tools in helping children overcome bedwetting. Unlike many of the devices and tools intended for children with enuresis, alarms can actually treat bedwetting rather than just making the symptoms more bearable.

Moisture alarm bed wetting devices are worn with underpants and the sensor of the alarm emits a loud sound when moisture is detected. The child can wake up and hurry to the bathroom in time. With use, the idea is to get the child to anticipate the alarm and wake up before any moisture is detected by the alarm. Within two or three months of nightly use, many children find that they can prevent all nighttime accidents and that they are actually getting up when their bladder is full and going to the bathroom.

Because moisture detection alarms are so effective in helping children overcome bedwetting, many manufacturers make them. However, all the different moisture detector alarms are not made the same.

If you choose the wrong model – one that makes your child uncomfortable or one that does not work well – the chances of success with the alarm are slim. You need a reliable and well-built alarm in order to help your child.

Signs of a good alarm include:

oReasonable price – the alarm must be affordable

oComfortable to wear – your child will need to wear this alarm nightly for a few months, anything that digs into your child, prevents sleep or has sharp edges could be detrimental. Plus, if your child hates wearing the alarm, he or she may not wear it often enough for the alarm to actually work

oRight levels of sensitivity – it is important that the alarm responds to small amounts of urine, so that the child can wake up in time to go to the bathroom. At the same time, an alarm that is too sensitive may be set off by night sweats, which will not only interrupt sleep unduly but will also make the alarm less successful in curing bedwetting.

oEase of use – the alarm must be easy enough for your child to set and reset even in the middle of the night. Some alarms have a remote system that allows parents to reset the alarm from another room. This is useful for younger children.

oDurability – your child may drop the alarm in the night or may knock the alarm against the walls or bed during a restless night

oReliability – The alarm must work each time urine is present, or it will be difficult to teach your child to solve bedwetting.

oHygienic design – since the alarm will be in contact with urine, it is essential for good health that the alarm can be easily cleaned or disinfected after each use without its functioning being affected

oLoudness – The alarm should wake your child (and you, if your child tends to sleep through alarms). Some alarms come with adjustable sound levels, which can be very useful. Plus, some alarms allow children to be woken with vibrations rather than sound.

If you have large family, young children, or if your child shares a room, this can be a very useful feature. Plus, children not woken by sound may well be woken by movement, so this feature is very useful if your child has trouble being woken by an alarm.

oSecureness – Some alarms come with wireless technology to prevent tangling or pulled wires. This is a nice feature, but even a lower-end alarm is fine as long as it fits snugly with clips or some other secure fastener so that it will not dislodge even with nightly tossing and turning.

oSize – The alarm should be small enough to be worn with comfort, and should be the right size for your child. It should fit snugly enough so that it is not dislodged during a restless night

oSimple power sources – Most of these alarms work on batteries. Make sure any alarm you are considering buying uses batteries that are easily available. Stock up on batteries, as well.

oGuarantee – The manufacturer should be confident enough in the product to offer a full warranty or guarantee on the product. Remember: if the alarm does not work well each time, it will not be able to teach your child to overcome bedwetting. An alarm that is not consistent is useless.

oQuality made – The device should be sturdy and made with a design that shows some thought to patient comfort. The device should also be made to last.

Of course, you may not be able to try the device out in the store. However, the package label may at least give clues as to which of the above qualities are present in a product. Doctor or clinic reviews and recommendations from other parents can also help guide you to the alarms that have most of the above features.

-By: Jan Nicholas

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Stress tends to be thought of as an adult problem, if not preoccupation these days. For years many doctors didn’t even recognise its existence. But that’s all changing now as our knowledge of brain chemistry improves. Today we can give chapter and verse on what stress is.

Put simply, stress triggers our fight or flight response, a reactive, automatic defence mechanism which gives us extra energy to fight or flee any given emergency via a burst of adrenaline.

The Brain

The brain’s control centre, the Limbic system, contains four major elements. One of these is the Hypothalamus, sensitive to any outside danger which could result in physical or emotional hurt.

The Hypothalamus immediately signals the Pituitary gland which in turn signals the adrenaline glands which release up to 30 hormones, one of which is cortisol, too much of which damages the immune system leading to colds and flu at best.

Major Energy Boost

These extra hormones are pure energy and are used as an extra burst of speed for escape, or to give us extra and sometimes extraordinary strength to fight the danger. (There are many recorded incidents of small women lifting huge weights to free trapped children for example, or men tackling fierce animals to save their partners or children.)

Other examples of heroism are accompanied by the phrase, it all happened so fast. And of course, that’s the clue. Our reaction to the event is governed at a subconscious level and therefore at a speed far beyond normal conscious thought processes. The rush of adrenaline is instant and our consequent reactions are equally instant and out with our control.

Anxiety

Stress can manifest itself as anxiety or secondary stage tension. Females and young boys tend to be anxious whereas older males hold their anxiety in check i.e. fake it, leading them into the more harmful ‘tension’ stage. Which is one reason I’m sure why males on average live up to five years less than females.

Tension and anxiety in most children however begins with their parents, especially the mother. Show me a school failure or underachiever and I will show you an anxious child who has an anxious mother. The child picks up the tension and/or anxiety from the parents at a subconscious level.

The following questions now arise. How does this anxiety affect the child? And, what can be done about it?

Bedwetting

Anxiety can affect the child in a variety of ways. One obvious example is bed-wetting. Less than 1% of bed-wetters have a physical problem, it’s virtually always anxiety of some sort of another which creates so much tension that the bladder cannot be fully opened while the child is awake. When the child sleeps, that part of the brain which controls the bladder ‘switches off. Muscles relax and the water flows uncontrollably.

This doesn’t mean that the anxious child sleeps well, on the contrary, anxiety creates havoc with sleep patterns and this in turn affects the child’s ability to function properly. First of all, the child can be tired and listless next day.

Assimilating Information

Secondly, we use sleep to make sense of events which happened during the day, that includes making sense of what we have learned during the day. If we don’t fully assimilate the days learning, our decks are cluttered for the next days learning and that makes future assimilation even more difficult. Multiply that over a period of weeks and months and you can see how easily it is to fall behind in the learning process.

Expectations

It’s understandable but completely wrong to imagine that if someone is failing to pick up the basics like spelling, tables and reading that they must be lacking in intelligence. Most learning, especially early learning is done at the subconscious level via a process known as Ontogenesis. For example, we don’t learn to speak formally we pick it up as we develop. Equally, other major players in the learning process also work at the level of the subconscious, for example belief systems, in this case self-belief and self-confidence.

The expectations of others affect our own expectations and as you will read in future articles, these expectations are extremely powerful forces. They can drive us on to higher things or they can limit us for the rest of our lives. Happily they can also be altered. The point is they have to be recognised. Unrealistic expectations, for example parents demanding too much of a child before the child is ready, will drive up the child’s anxiety ratings which will have the exact opposite affect which the parent is trying to achieve for the child.

Intellectual Development

Recent research by Professor Howard Gardner of Harvard Psychology Department has identified 8 different types of intelligence in all of us, two on the left side of the brain, what I call the masculine intelligence and two on the right, which I call the feminine intelligence. Masculine intelligence is straight line and sequential in nature, i.e. mechanical. It is relatively simple to develop and most of its work is already being taken over by computers. The vastly more complex feminine intelligence is what gives us our humanity and will never be matched by anything other than a living computer, if such a thing can ever be devised.

The point here is that left brain children, especially boys will appear to soar ahead on in the academic field leaving their right brain counterparts floundering in their wake. At this point parents, especially left brain fathers might panic. They begin to put major pressures on their right brain sons to stop being so ‘lazy’, get some work done and stop messing about with all that arty farty rubbish, without realising that their right brain sons were infinitely more intelligent than they were themselves. With the correct training, i.e. using Wholebrain Teaching methods their children could easily begin to master the basics and make considerable progress across the academic map.

Know Your Child

First of all, all humans are programmed to learn, but we are not all programmed to learn the same things or in the same way. Indeed, the modern workforce is expected to continually update its information throughout its working life and this will be the case for generations to come.

Learning for life is no longer an empty slogan but a reality. So if your child seems a bit slow at times, encourage and stimulate by all means, but do not force, panic or show alarm or you will create growing anxieties in your child which, as we have seen, will actually prevent your child from learning.

Look for the signs of right brain dominance. The most obvious is left-handedness. Most left handers, certainly everyone I’ve ever met, are right brain dominant. Right brain children tend to be dreamy and unworldly. They will remember tunes better than words, will be sensitive and intuitive, people orientated and caring. They are far more likely to be affected by any form of row in the house than their left brain counterparts, but will be especially hurt and confused if the shouting is directed at them.

They are delicate flowers and should be handled with care, loads of love and affection. They thrive on intellectual and emotional stimulation and the attention of adults. All children should be treated with respect, but right brain children especially; they are very perceptive and are not easily fooled; though they might allow you to think they have been.

Right brain intelligence wont accept that 4(2a – 3b) (2d 3c) = x elephants – 77p unless they know why and what for, whereas the left brain will happily accept it if told to and learn the why’s and wherefores later on. Left brain intelligence is one dimensional and operates in a narrow range whereas right brain intelligence thinks wide and deep and wants to know everything.

Physical and Emotional Development

Linked to intellectual development and a crucial part of it is the development of the body and the child’s emotions. Each is linked to the child’s self esteem and self-confidence and general feelings of self worth.

It is now well documented that children with low self esteem and poor self confidence are slow learners. Spoon feeding children and keeping them in a ‘safe’ environment (the home, the car, at mum’s side wherever they go etc) is actually killing them physically and emotionally. Never in history have so many children been overweight or at best, unfit. Never before have children been so cautious and in many cases frightened about life.

In our efforts to protect and preserve our children we have in fact been slowly strangling the life forces in them. This in turn produces stress, which affects the learning process but more importantly it affects their ability to mature emotionally. It produces weak men who in turn are less able to help their own children to develop. We are in the middle of a vicious circle which we must break and soon.

Dyslexia and its Signs

Finally, a word on dyslexics and defence mechanisms Most, if not all dyslexics are right brain dominant, dyslexia being an underdevelopment of the left hemisphere and a dysfunction between left and right hemispheres. The left hemisphere organises our thinking and our information, by paying attention to the details of a subject.

Some of the signs that your child may be dyslexic to some extent or another:

1. Difficulty distinguishing between left and right.

2. Difficulty mastering the technique of tying shoe laces or buttoning coats or shirts/blouses.

3. Learning anything in sequence for example: Days of the week; Months of the year; the Alphabet.

4. Writing d instead of b and vice versa.

5. Short term memory problems (99.9% due to anxiety.)

Defence Mechanisms

To combat problems within their lives your child’s subconscious will develop defences to keep the trauma of failure to a minimum e.g. ‘laziness’; withdrawal; selective deafness; defiance; truancy; to name but a few. The Fear of Failure in itself is a major obstacle to learning. Fear of letting you, the parents down. Letting the teacher down, letting themselves down in front of adults they respect and need respect from, and of course, from their peers. They would rather die than look stupid in front of their peers.

Conclusion

Children can be even more affected by stress than adults can. What’s more they pick up our stress and develop their own from it. Stress interferes with the short-term memory, which is electrical in form and very easily disrupted. It’s housed in the Limbic System and is the brain’s ‘clearing house’ or control centre. All information flows in and out of the Limbic System. Stress interrupts the flow of information in and out of the centre, thus learning and memory is disrupted. It affects all of us this way, but especially children and especially those very sensitive right brain boys.

Solutions: The Edinburgh Techniques

To combat stress in children, Brian Hill adapted and developed two psychotherapeutic techniques especially for students, The Magic Garden and The Study Relaxer. Soon young clients were being brought to the Edinburgh Centre from all over the UK. The Magic Garden is a simple but powerful piece of therapy aimed at those students under 12 years old. The Study Relaxer is for all students from the age of 12 and over. Either can be downloaded in minutes from the Edinburgh Techniques site.

Both techniques ware designed to relax the students, allowing for a good wholesome night’s sleep. They build confidence and self esteem and generally create the correct atmosphere for students to learn and assimilate new information and of course, remember and use information already learned, especially during exams.

As a secondary issue, The Magic Garden also stops bedwetting, nightmares and sleepwalking within 7 to 10 days.

Brian Hill MA (Edin) is an Educationalist, formerly at the Edinburgh Centre for Accelerated Learning and the Stress Management Centre in Harley Street, London. He is a specialist in Accelerated Learning and Stress Management.

In the 80′s he developed a range of Whole-brain Learning Techniques to help dyslexics and slow learners who came to his Centre from all over the UK. In the mid 90′s he wrote the Techniques up and they have been selling ever since over the Net. From 1997 to Dec 2004 he licensed Classroom Resources to sell his Techniques throughout UK schools.

Those techniques and more can now be downloaded from the new website: http://www.edinburghtechniques.co.uk

Key Points of the Article

1. Stress affects children even more than adults because they are less able to handle its effects than we are.

2. Most childhood stress is caused by adult expectations, adult disapproval, or even parental stress picked up at a subconscious level by the child. This is particularly true of boys and mothers.

3. Stress interferes with signals entering or leaving the brain. Thus learning is a major victim of stress, especially in children.

4. Children in particular, need a happy, loving environment in which to learn.

5. Feeding the child’s physical and emotional needs is paramount to its intellectual development.

6. Signs of stress can stretch from withdrawal to tantrums in younger children. Tiredness could indicate broken sleep patterns due to stress.

7. A happy, supportive, unconditional loving atmosphere is the best cure for childhood stress.

8. The combination of Stress, broken sleep, frustration with failure in the learning process and low self esteem and poor self confidence caused by this failure leads to can lead to severe unhappiness in the child which can accentuate the withdrawal symptoms over the years or explode into violent episodes.

Case Study

One of my earliest clients was a 12 year old girl from Fife who was in special needs. She had a very low IQ, as denoted by her low pitched voice and slow speech. She couldn’t go out on her own. She threw tantrums, wet the bed, had nightmares and regularly walked in sleep. She was making virtually no academic progress and the parents were led to believe this was not likely to improve much over the years.

I adapted a simple visualisation technique to her needs, The Magic Garden, and made a tape for her which she played nightly. Within 10 days her nocturnal problems were over. She had been suffering from acute anxiety which prevented her from learning; this further lowered her confidence and self esteem. The Magic Garden tape broke the cycle of anxiety, non learning, low self esteem etc and allowed her to begin to move forward. That, combined with other ECAL Wholebrain Learning Techniques, saw her make improvements that her parents had been told would be impossible by professionals in conventional educational psychology.

A para from her father’s letter of March 1998 can be seen in the testimonials page: http://www.edinburghtechniques.co.uk

-By: Brian Hill

Brian Hill MA (Edin) Aug 2005
Edinburgh Techniques
http://www.edinburghtechniques.co.uk
brian@edinburghtechniques.co.uk

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Nocturnal enuresis is just another name for bedwetting and it can affect both children and adults. For kids, bedwetting is just a part of growing up as the body needs to mature and fully develop the capacity to control urination. Normally children reach this stage by age 4 or 5. It’s when bedwetting continues that it is considered nocturnal enuresis.

For adults, there is usually an underlying condition that is causing the problem and those conditions can run the gamut from weak pelvic floor muscles to excessive use of natural diuretics like caffeine and alcohol. If you are an adult and suffer from nocturnal enuresis, your first step in solving the problem is a visit to your doctor to determine the cause.

Children, like adults, associate bedwetting with shame. They know it’s something they shouldn’t do and become both frustrated and ashamed that they can’t control it. Sometimes bedwetting can extend into the teens and can have a negative impact on the child’s life particularly in their social development. What teenager wants to risk being found out by their friends as a bed wetter at a sleepover or at camp? Learning the cause and knowing how to manage the condition becomes exceptionally important in these cases.

So what can you do to manage bedwetting?

Well for children there are a number of products that can help train them to get up and go when the bladder is full. One of the most effective tools is a bedwetting alarm. This consists of a moisture sensor that is placed in the pants and is attached by a thin wire to an alarm worn on the collar. When moisture is detected the alarm goes off waking the child who then goes to the bathroom. This process trains the brain to understand the feeling when the bladder is full.

For adults there can be many treatments and it all depends on what the underlying cause is. However, while working on a cure, the condition can be managed using waterproof mattress covers to both protect the bed and to wick away moisture from the skin. Remember, nocturnal enuresis does not have to impact you or your child’s life. There’s help and all you have to do is find it.

-By: Hillary Bowman

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If you find that your child wets the bed frequently, you may find that it is time to take action. You have a few weapons to choose from which this article will look to outline more in depth. The sheer amount of options which are available to parents like you means that you should never feel like you are clutching at straws looking for a solution.

A child that wets the bed can be particularly low in morale, especially if the child in question is wetting the bed longer than his or her peers. Motivating the child with incentives when they do not wet the bed can help them to become more aware of their toilet habits and can help them to become more responsible by going to the toilet before bedtime and removing their bedding themselves when they do not have a dry night. Really though, this exercise should only be implemented when the child is older than the age of seven and not going through what is known as common bedwetting.

Another option is consulting a medical professional for a bedwetting alarm, which has relatively high success rates in curing what is known as primary enuresis. The alarm acts by a sensor which detects when the child is wetting the bed. This can then encourage them to get up and conclude their urinating in the bathroom, reducing the amount of spill on the bed. This combined with an incentive chart can do wonders.

Bedwetting could be the sign of something more serious, too. Do not be afraid to consult a doctor if you ever feel like this is the case.

If your child wets the bed frequently, it could mean many things. Taking into account all of the personal circumstances which are surrounding your child’s bedwetting and then going on to seek expert advice can help you find out more.

-By: Shannon L. Miller

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Many visitors to our website Potty Training and Bedwetting Solutions wonder what the different treatment options are between bedwetting and potty training. This article explores the causes and some treatment options for bedwetting.

Causes of bedwetting

The most common reasons for a child suffering from bedwetting are as follows: developmental delays (as mentioned earlier), genetics (same here), sleep disorder (such as sleeping too deeply), behavior and psychological disorders, anatomy, antidiuretic hormone levels.

The most commonly accepted, but also hardest to prove, cause of primary nocturnal enuresis is maturational delay of the central nervous system. Basically meaning that the child’s nervous system doesn’t sense that the bladder needs to be held, and the urine is released during sleep.

Sleeping disorders make up a very large percentage of children who suffer from bedwetting, and there has been extensive research done on the subject, but there have been such varying results, that it is hard for researchers to determine a primary sleep disorder that can be determined as the main cause for bedwetting.

Some people believe that bedwetting is mainly caused behaviorally, which leads to the issue of psychological consideration- some studies have shown that psychologically children who suffer from nocturnal enuresis have essentially the same behaviors as children who don’t, while other studies have concluded the opposite. In those studies that show psychological differences between the two groups, the differences have mainly been that a child who has a bedwetting problem is less social and has more self-esteem issues than the other group. This begs a question though: do the low self-esteem and social issues go hand in hand with bedwetting children, or does the bedwetting lead to these types of psychological situations in these children?

Family history is also very important, and many studies have shown results that deem it almost conclusive that if a parent suffered from bedwetting as a child, there is a very strong chance that their child will. In fact, one study showed that in a family where both parents suffered from this condition, there was a 77 percent chance that their child would do the same. This is a helpful finding, because it helps dispel the theory that enuresis is a behavioral problem. In turn, this makes it more acceptable, and causes slightly less frustration and guilt, which can lead the way for a better outcome following therapy.

Treating bedwetting

In the beginning of trying to deal with a bedwetting situation, you may opt to try different methods of battling it without the interference of doctor or medical care. Whether or not medical intervention will be necessary depends largely on many factors, including such issues as the child’s age, how often they actually wet the bed, and the perceived severity of the problem by the child’s family, and most children actually do outgrow bedwetting, never needing treatment for it by a physician at all.

Many parents use night time diapers to battle bedwetting, and while these work great in preventing the bed from getting wet due to the accident, they actually do very little in the way of helping resolve the issue. Although it is obviously very important to focus on this part of bedwetting, it is also very important to try to prevent future occurrences. This is why is a good idea to try and step in as early as possible to use many basic methods of prevention. Then, when these don’t work, you may decide to take your child to the doctor. You should know, though, that children younger than six years of age are usually not treated by doctors if bedwetting is the only problem.

Once you have decided to take your child to a physician concerning bedwetting, it is important to know that it may take a long time to actually reach the ultimate goal of completely accident-free nights. It is a long process in which both the parent and the child must remain dedicated. There are two methods which doctors utilize to deal with bedwetting problems: behavioral therapy and medicine. It is extremely important that the parent and child be as cooperative as possible, and be willing to try the doctor’s suggestions. If anyone has a bad attitude about the situation, it can make solving the problem a whole lot harder, if not impossible.

When you first take your child to the doctor, they will most likely want to rule out any medical conditions in the very beginning. While most of the children who are seen by physicians regarding bedwetting are perfectly healthy, some actually do have a medical condition. So, before a doctor will approach it as if they don’t, they will want to make sure that this really is the case. The evaluation the doctor does on your child should be geared toward ruling out anatomic abnormalities of the urinary tract or bladder. These can include such situations as posterior urethral valves, an ectopic ureter, or an epispadiac urethra, which is a urethral opening on the dorsum of the penis. When the doctor does a thorough exam, which will include gathering family medical history, a physical exam, and a urine evaluation, they are usually able to determine whether or not there is a medical condition and, if there is, what that condition might be. When, and even before, your child is being medically treated for enuresis, it is an excellent idea to keep a diary of bedwetting episodes. Along with this diary, if the child’s bedwetting does not occur repetitively on a nightly basis, it is a good idea to write down anything that might have occurred that day to upset your child’s normal psychological balance.

Once the doctor has determined whether there is, or is not, a medical condition contributing to your child’s bedwetting situation, they can determine which methods of treatment will best help them. Again, it is important to remember that consistent follow-up can be a key to improvement in bedwetting (it is also good to know that improvement is usually defined by most doctors as a 50 percent decrease in the frequency of bedwetting episodes).

Your doctor may decide to use just one method of treatment or both in conjunction with one another. The behavioral methods can, and usually do, include the following: an alarm system, a reward system, asking your child to change the sheets, and bladder training.

An alarm system Bedwetting alarms

can be an excellent tool for helping by retraining your child’s sleeping patterns so that they sleep more lightly, and wake up more often during the night, allowing less time for an accident to occur. You can set these for a certain amount of time and have your child get up and try to use the restroom every time the alarm goes off.

A reward system can also be a very successful method of behavior therapy, especially once the child has learned new sleep patterns and is having less frequent accidents. Giving them either a small reward each day after a dry night, or a large reward at the end of a certain length of time, such as an entire week of dry nights, can help give your child even more incentive to try to wake up at night.

Having your child change the sheets is also an excellent way to help keep them from having as many bedwetting nights. While it is never good to punish a child for something they have little to know control over, this is not punishment, and is instead a way for them to learn that they have to be responsible for their actions, even if those actions occur while they are sleeping. This also works well because they are having to get up out of bed and be pulled from the deep sleep more often, which in turn can lead them to sleep more lightly on a regular basis.

Bladder training is another form of behavioral therapy that can help limit bedwetting nights. This is defined by, during the day, having your child hold their bladder for longer and longer periods of time. They may always go to the restroom immediately when they feel the urge to go, and so when they are in a deep sleep, that is how their body reacts when that urge hits them. If you teach your child to hold it for as long as they can when the urge comes while they are awake, they are more likely to be able to hold it subconsciously while they are asleep.

If behavioral therapies do not work, and only if the child is 7 years of age, or older, medicines may be prescribed. Medicines work best in conjunction with behavioral therapy, because they are not a cure for bedwetting. They also may have side effects. If you do decide to go with medicines as a treatment option for your child, there are two common kinds, one of which your doctor will likely prescribe. One of these helps the bladder hold more urine, and one helps the kidneys make less urine. Obviously, these are not the types of drugs you will want your child to have to take consistently for the rest of their life. Instead, they are best when used temporarily in conjunction with the behavior therapy mentioned earlier.

Helping your child cope with bedwetting

Not only should you try to help your child overcome their bedwetting problem, but you should also focus on helping them to understand it and not feel quite so bad about it, if at all possible. Your child likely feels very ashamed at being a bedwetter. They may also feel guilt for not being able to control their body in a way that they feel they should. This is very likely in older children. You should never punish your child for this problem. It is very important to remember that your child cannot help it. Again, the older the child is, the more this applies, and your child is likely even more irritated about it than you are. You should try to not make your child feel any more guilt about it than they already do.

It may also help your child to know that no one really knows the exact cause of bedwetting, because there are too many factors that have to be considered in each case. Explain to them the many different causes that might be affecting their situation, and the fact that these reasons are not their fault, and that you will help them overcome it. Tell them as much information as is necessary to help them be able to deal with it without thinking less of themselves. For instance, if you wet the bed as a child, be sure and explain this, while also informing them that it can run in families. This might help take some of the pressure off and relieve some of their guilt.

Just remember, this is a rough time on both you and your child, and you should use whatever methods necessary to dispel your bedwetting difficulties. Keeping the right no-fault attitude can definitely help, as well as having an open mind to suggestions for treatments, and being dedicated to whatever ways you decide to treat bedwetting and/or potty training.

-By: Daniel Urmann

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