Bedwetting News

"A kid who wets the bed is just too lazy to go to the bathroom"  Absolutely false! Nobody wets intentionally. Virtually all who wet never even wake up until morning or when they get chilled from the wet sheets. "Cutting down on drinking liquids before bed stops bedwetting" This is false. It may reduce the amount of liquid discharged at night, but it will not stop night wetting. "Drinking more water during the day increases bladder capacity and stops wetting at night" Data shows that drinking more water during the day will grow your bladder some, but it will not cut down on the production of urine at night. "Waking the child up at night to go stops wetting" This is one of the myths that get repeated over and over. However, according to a number of studies, there is no correlation between waking a child to get him to go late at night and preventing wetting. He is just as likely to wet again later at night. Many kids will we...

"It is a common myth that using something absorbent enables bed wetting by keeping kids dry and not letting they know they wet the bed. But there is no research that supports that illusion", informs Aubrey Yuzva, Brand Manager for GoodNites. "Using an absorbent product while sleeping does not make a difference in conquering bed wetting". On the other hand, there was a survey done at an American Academy of Pediatrics seminar on bedwetting in November 2003, with approximately 300 pediatricians and nurses. When asked about the use of diapers with bedwetters, 85% expressed concern that wearing diapers "give the wrong message" that it ts okay to wet at night and not get up and go to the bathroom. The main argument against wearing diapers is that the disposable diapers remove the wetness feeling and thus hides any trigger to wake up. There is no real comparison between disposables and re-usables. The disposables remove liquid better, the cloth diapers feel d...