If your child isn't waking up dry, do you know why?
When your child is wetting the bed, you need to figure out why it’s happening and if there’s anything medically oriented to be worried about.
An informal poll on Web MD showed that 68% of kids who were wetting the bed, were wetting the bed every night. That’s a lot of wet sheets and laundry to be doing – not to mention the bad feelings that kids often start carrying around as a result of this unwanted habit.
So as a parent, it’s important to know that if your child is wetting the bed, it’s not because he’s lazy. There’s no need to yell at your child or lay a guilt trip on him. If he could stop wetting the bed, he would.
The fact that your son or daughter continues to wet the bed even after you’ve talked about it with them, indicates that there’s something else going on…And it could be related to your genes.
“The majority of bedwetting is inherited,” says Bennett. “For three out of four kids, either a parent or a first-degree relative also wet the bed in childhood.” – Howard Bennett, MD, pediatrician & author of Waking Up Dry: A Guide to Help Children Overcome Bedwetting
Click through to the full article below to read about the specific chromosomes involved in the bedwetting gene and to get a tip about what to say to your kids if you or someone in your immediate family was also a bedwetter as a child.
Bedwetting: What Causes It? [Web MD]
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