One in 50 teenagers still wet the bed
One in 50 teenagers still wet the bed and almost half of 19 year-olds who have the problem are wetting the bed every night, according to research published in the May issue of the urology journal BJUI International.
Professor Chung K Yeung from the Chinese University of Hong Kong teamed up with colleagues from the Prince of Wales Hospital to analyse the results of more than 16,500 questionnaires surveying children aged from five to 19.
He hopes that his findings will reassure parents of children with mild bed wetting problems, but stress the importance of seeking advice in severe cases, which can often be caused by underlying medical problems and continue into adulthood.
512 children - just over three per cent of those surveyed - reported night-time bedwetting and one in five of those also had daytime incontinence. 302 were boys and 210 were girls.
The researchers found that although bed wetting was less common as children got older, the percentage reporting severe problems increased with age.
Children and adolescents who wet the bed at night also showed a similar pattern when it came to daytime incontinence, with a higher percentage of problems reported in older age groups.
When the researchers looked in detail at the 512 children with bed wetting problems they found that:
* Mild bed wetting was much worse among younger children, with 58 per cent of five to ten year-olds and 18 per cent of 11-19 year-olds wetting the bed less than three times a week.
* But older children reported a higher level of severe problems, with 82 per cent of 11-19 year-olds wetting the bed more than three times a week, compared with 42 per cent of five to ten year-olds.
* Just over 16 per cent of five year-olds wet the bed, with boys (21 per cent) having almost twice as many problems as girls (11 per cent).
* By the age of 19, three per cent of boys and two per cent of girls were still wetting the bed.
* Just under a third of 11-19 year-old boys (32 per cent) also experienced daytime incontinence, almost double the 15 per cent recorded in the under ten age group.
* The figures for girls were lower but showed a similar trend, at 25.5 per cent for 11-19 year-olds and 12 per cent for girls under ten.
* Overall, 29 per cent of children aged 11-19 experienced daytime incontinence, compared with 14 cent of under tens.
"Bed wetting showed a general reduction as children got older" says Professor Yeung, who is also President of the International Children's Continence Society. "However, this reduction was much greater in those with mild symptoms who wet the bed three or less times a week, compared to those with severe problems who were wetting the bed every night.
"Just over 14 per cent of five year-olds who wet the bed did so seven nights a week. By the age of 19, severe bed wetting accounted for over 48 per cent of teenagers who were still wetting the bed."
21,000 questionnaires were distributed to 67 schools, with a greater emphasis on children over ten, and just under 79 per cent were returned by parents and children.
The average age of respondents was just under 14 and the largest number of responses were from teenagers aged 16-18. 24 per cent of the questionnaires concerned children under ten.
"Our findings challenge the myth that bedwetting will always get better and disappear as the child gets older" says Professor Yeung.
"In 2004 we published findings of a previous study in BJU International that showed that adults showed no significant decrease in bed wetting problems from the age of 10 to 40.
"These latest findings underline the importance of seeking help for children with severe bed wetting problems, especially if they continue into adolescence. If these individuals are left untreated, the evidence suggests that they will continue to experience ongoing problems when they become adults."
From Blackwell Publishing
Professor Chung K Yeung from the Chinese University of Hong Kong teamed up with colleagues from the Prince of Wales Hospital to analyse the results of more than 16,500 questionnaires surveying children aged from five to 19.
He hopes that his findings will reassure parents of children with mild bed wetting problems, but stress the importance of seeking advice in severe cases, which can often be caused by underlying medical problems and continue into adulthood.
512 children - just over three per cent of those surveyed - reported night-time bedwetting and one in five of those also had daytime incontinence. 302 were boys and 210 were girls.
The researchers found that although bed wetting was less common as children got older, the percentage reporting severe problems increased with age.
Children and adolescents who wet the bed at night also showed a similar pattern when it came to daytime incontinence, with a higher percentage of problems reported in older age groups.
When the researchers looked in detail at the 512 children with bed wetting problems they found that:
* Mild bed wetting was much worse among younger children, with 58 per cent of five to ten year-olds and 18 per cent of 11-19 year-olds wetting the bed less than three times a week.
* But older children reported a higher level of severe problems, with 82 per cent of 11-19 year-olds wetting the bed more than three times a week, compared with 42 per cent of five to ten year-olds.
* Just over 16 per cent of five year-olds wet the bed, with boys (21 per cent) having almost twice as many problems as girls (11 per cent).
* By the age of 19, three per cent of boys and two per cent of girls were still wetting the bed.
* Just under a third of 11-19 year-old boys (32 per cent) also experienced daytime incontinence, almost double the 15 per cent recorded in the under ten age group.
* The figures for girls were lower but showed a similar trend, at 25.5 per cent for 11-19 year-olds and 12 per cent for girls under ten.
* Overall, 29 per cent of children aged 11-19 experienced daytime incontinence, compared with 14 cent of under tens.
"Bed wetting showed a general reduction as children got older" says Professor Yeung, who is also President of the International Children's Continence Society. "However, this reduction was much greater in those with mild symptoms who wet the bed three or less times a week, compared to those with severe problems who were wetting the bed every night.
"Just over 14 per cent of five year-olds who wet the bed did so seven nights a week. By the age of 19, severe bed wetting accounted for over 48 per cent of teenagers who were still wetting the bed."
21,000 questionnaires were distributed to 67 schools, with a greater emphasis on children over ten, and just under 79 per cent were returned by parents and children.
The average age of respondents was just under 14 and the largest number of responses were from teenagers aged 16-18. 24 per cent of the questionnaires concerned children under ten.
"Our findings challenge the myth that bedwetting will always get better and disappear as the child gets older" says Professor Yeung.
"In 2004 we published findings of a previous study in BJU International that showed that adults showed no significant decrease in bed wetting problems from the age of 10 to 40.
"These latest findings underline the importance of seeking help for children with severe bed wetting problems, especially if they continue into adolescence. If these individuals are left untreated, the evidence suggests that they will continue to experience ongoing problems when they become adults."
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WTF IS YOUR PROBLEM! Child services could take her away if they found out!!!!!!!!
i wet the bed
i wet the bed when I was little and stopped when i was about 10 and then i started agsin when i was 14. Now i am 15. But i cant tell anyone; not my parents not my friends no-one. when i first started again I woke up having wet. So while everyone was sleeping i stripped my bed down washed the sheets and dryed them before anyone woke up. but knowing that i was a frequent bed wetter before just incase kind of for comfort i went out and bought some drynites. But science then i jave not stoped i think that i have had 3 dry nights in the last year. so now i buy drynites every week it is soooo imbrassing putting them in the basket in the supermaket and buying them. i always go as soon as the shops open, on a weekend, when there is no-one in there my age.
It is so awfull again i thought i grew out of this! i just want it to stop!!!
I think I have the cure
What you have to do is eat dinner at 6:00-7:00 and stop eating and drinking at 7 but make sure you have a lot of liquids during the day and pee before going to bed.Then as you get into one to two weeks in a row for not peeing then you can start like drinking a little before you go to bed or eating a snack as long as you don't eat a heavy dinner EVERY night I think this helps. You can have dinner before you go to bed sometimes. I am so exited I have not been wetting my bed for 2 and a half weeks and what I did is marked my calendar with a check mark for every time I peed and mark an x for every time I didn't. Once you get to a habit of not wetting forlike 30 days you are beginning to stop. Set a goal for tonight and count 30 days and put a little mark where that is and then if you get to 1 week give yourself a treat or just a thumbs up!! and then to week two without peeing do the same it really helps.
Hope this works for some of you guys and God Bless,
Sincerely,
Stacy
I think I have the cure
What you have to do is eat dinner at 6:00-7:00 and stop eating and drinking at 7 but make sure you have a lot of liquids during the day and pee before going to bed.Then as you get into one to two weeks in a row for not peeing then you can start like drinking a little before you go to bed or eating a snack as long as you don't eat a heavy dinner EVERY night I think this helps. You can have dinner before you go to bed sometimes. I am so exited I have not been wetting my bed for 2 and a half weeks and what I did is marked my calendar with a check mark for every time I peed and mark an x for every time I didn't. Once you get to a habit of not wetting forlike 30 days you are beginning to stop. Set a goal for tonight and count 30 days and put a little mark where that is and then if you get to 1 week give yourself a treat or just a thumbs up!! and then to week two without peeing do the same it really helps.
Hope this works for some of you guys and God Bless,
Sincerely,
Stacy
re: help!
i have the same problem as you and if your friends were your ' friends' they wont make fun of you , you say you go to the bathroom before you sleep what i used to do is when my mum or dad was going to bed which was usually about two hours after me they would come into my room , wake me up and i would go to the toilet again. it really worked for me try it. and i also no how it feels to wet at a sleepover. dont make that an excuse not to have fun you could try getting changed in the toilet and wearing those pull up things and also so you cant see them wear baggy trousers. oh and dont have a drink late at night the latest i have z drink at is 7 hope this help xxx
Help
I'm a 13 year old girl who still wets the bed! I've been doing it since I was about 6, and it won't stop. D: I've tried going to the bathroom before I sleep, but I usually wet 2-4 times a week. I'm afraid to tell my friends because I know they might make fun of me or think of me differently. I really want it to stop, and once I went to my friends house. I accidentally wet, and the next day I had to make up an excuse about it.. I felt so bad. And now, I try not to sleep over, because of it. I have to wear goodnights or pullups.
baptism
No, really, who would have thunk!!
Some people have baby fetisies with there partner, but to humiliate your 14 year old daughter that is f#@ked right up. Right a Catholic thing, I am sorry for your daughter to even being envolved in a cult, little own having to play dress up for adults entertainment. You guys are messed up in the head!!
re: I am wondering what I can do about bedwetting
no your not the only one im 22 and i bedwet, i have aspergers syndrome, epilepsy, Dyscalculia (rubish at maths), dyslexia, traits of OCD, ODD, PDD and psycological issues.
I wear diapers every night and always have, and in the last 7 years ive actually grown to like depend on them emotionly as well, as they also provide me a sense of security, comfort, warmth, just like my binki. yea i know it sounds odd, but thats me.
Regressing is just how i cope with things
bed wetting
I, a male, had the problem of bed wetting into my teen years. Somewhere I heard that I needed to stop peeing while I was peeing to strengthen that muscle. I was skeptical, but tried it, over a few months, because I was desperate. I stopped wetting the bed, but I don't know if that cured me or just getting older did. I would recommend trying it though, along with not drinking anything for a couple hours before bedtime. Now I drink anytime and don't have a problem. Hope this helps someone.
Off topic
Although I could remark on topic, I will not. Instead, I want to urge the people here, to bloody start learning to write. How hard is it to hold down the 'shift' button at the start of a sentence. Touch the 'spacebar' in between words. Use single quotes where appropriate.
It would make your comments readable, instead of tiring.
English is far from my home language. However I seem to be the uttermost master here. It sickens me.
Wetting the bed at 18
I am an 18 year old Female who wets the bed when Ive been to partys or clubbing and drinking alot.
When I am really drunk I sleep heavy and wet or if I am awake I just do it - Its usually because I cant get up or too tired to.
Wearing Plastic Pants
My Daughter wet her bed most nights untill she was 11 during that time she always wore a nappy and plastic pants in bed and wore just the plastic pants under her underware at school during times when she was having tummy ache and constipation etc.
Although she no longer wets the bed she continues to wear plastic pants on their own in bed every night and during the day when she feels the need.
I have to say i dont really see any problem - its her choice and it gives her confidence.
holy shit!
wtf is wrong with you? how freaking old are you? 15s still too young?! get out of your little bubble of ingnorance and arrogance and open your eyes!!
Twelve - In diapers/pull-ups 24/7
I have a weak bladder so I am required to wear a pull-up to bed and to friends house, everywhere else like school and the store I wear disposible diapers. I absoloutly HATE diapers and pullups. Plus the school won't even let me change my own diaper. Just here to let you out there know that it is in a way normal ONLY if you have some sort of urinary problem.
YOU ARE SICK
What the heck is wrong with you. Would you want someone to treat you that way. Have you even thought to take her to a doctor. I mean not bad enough to make her drink the water then you make her take her underwear off that is sick if I was her I would run away.
Then when the police found me I would make sure you go to jail.
You need HELP call someone now.
some people have this problem and they can not help it THANK GOD MY MOM was smart enough to take me to the doctor and ask why.
If you love your child you should you evil bi%%$ GET HELP THANK GOODNESS THE GIRL IS ALMOST 18 so she can leave you and she will prob not come back. I don't blam her. I sure as hell wouldn't
YOU ARE SICK
What the heck is wrong with you. Would you want someone to treat you that way. Have you even thought to take her to a doctor. I mean not bad enough to make her drink the water then you make her take her underwear off that is sick if I was her I would run away.
Then when the police found me I would make sure you go to jail.
You need HELP call someone now.
some people have this problem and they can not help it THANK GOD MY MOM was smart enough to take me to the doctor and ask why.
If you love your child you should you evil bi%%$ GET HELP THANK GOODNESS THE GIRL IS ALMOST 18 so she can leave you and she will prob not come back. I don't blam her. I sure as hell wouldn't
my 18 year old girlfriend
my 18 year old girlfriend slept over last night. she says she woke up while she was peeing herself in the morning. this is unlike her but i still find it hilarious. i now have to change all my comforters and tell my parents i spilt apple juice all over it, and she says she will pay me 10 dollarms
The mother who makes her child hold and do exercises
While I don't disbelieve that someone would be capable of this type of abuse, I myself suspect that the person who posted that comment is just a urine fetishist posting for his or her own gratification. I don't think someone who was abusing another in this way would be so quick to broadcast it to the world, even anonymously, and certainly not in such detail. It's not cool for someone to subject everyone else to their sick masturbatory fantasies, but it's best to take everything you read on the internet with a grain of salt I think!
did you read this! important to PARENTS
MOST IMPORTANT
The most important thing any parent can do is to remember to give your child room to vent frustration and talk about shameful feelings if they want to. And to instill the message that they are always worthy and that you do not see them as lazy or untidy. It is much more important that your child feel good about himself than trying to change wetting the bed. Bed-wetting usually goes away but your child’s self-esteem stays for a lifetime and greatly influences the quality of his life. Let’s not lose track of what is really important. You can find more information about allowing your child to talk about feelings and building self-esteem in our ‘Sam and Bear Make Friends’ parents guide.
A very important note to a mother......
HI TO THE MOTHER THAT MAKES HER DAUGHTER DRINK 2 LITERS AND THEN DO EXERCISES YOU ARE DOWNRIGHT MEAN TO YOUR KID!!! YOU NEED TO STOP IT RIGHT NOW BEFORE SHE HATES YOU FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE AND IF SHE ONLY DOES IT FOR A FEW DRY NIGHTS THIS IS DEFINITELY NOT NOT NOT GONNA CURE YOUR CHILD OF THIS SHE IS PROBABLY SCARED OF YOU AND I FEEL REALLY BAD FOR YOU PLEASE STOP.
I was wondering....
hi I am 12 years old and I have to go to boarding school in a couple of years and I do not know how to stop wetting my bed my parents support me a lot and they don't yell at me about it or punish me and thats cool. just need some advice because its getting annoying. thanks and wondering if plastic pants even work.
terrible yaar!!!
god nows wat to do ... m 14 n still wet mah bed smtimes.. mah father says dat d doctors say dat i have to get operated 4 dis problem n m damn scared of gettin operated.
Don't tell other people how to raise their kids!
I think that sounds like a good way to increase the girl's bladder capacity so that she doesn't wet the bed! When our son wet the bed as a teenager, we taped a plug into his foreskin using surgical tape over night, but obviously girls don't have the same equipment!
To the depressed 18 year old
I would go out with you! I'm 21 and I have a urine fetish.Your bedwetting wouldn't bother me at all! We'll by a vinyl mattress cover online, and I'll make love to you and you can just let your pee flow whenever you need to!
wow
For the nut job at the top of the page who punishes her child by making her drink lots of water and hold it in until she cries and then do exercises....Child services needs to pay your home a visit. you have no business being a parent. Your child needs to be taken and placed with parents who actually know how to love. You are the true definition of an unfit parent.
WTF is wrong with you!?!?
Wow, u r an evil person. It's not her fault! You are a disgusting person! Like that guy said, go to he'll!
Go to hell!!!!!
WTF?!?!?! WTF is wrong with you?!?!? Right now I want to find you and kill you!!!! You deserve to be put in jail!!!! If you can't tell by the 300 other teenagers that have posted comments on here, it's not her f***ing fault!!! You must be mentaly retarded!!! Congratulations on garunteeing that you will never see your daughter again after she moves out!!! Go to he'll f***er!!!!
15, it sux
Yah, I'm 15 and wet about twice a week. So I'mnot to worried to spend the night with a friend, but since 1st grade I think Ihave wet 5 or 6 times at friends houses. I have no idea if they have ever told anyone. My parents are jerks about it, and so is my older brother. I wet the couch 2 days ago and my parents made me spend $200 to replace a couple coushins.
My 17 year old daughter wets the bed
and when she does I punish her by making her stay in on saturdays. I make her get up at 8, strip to her underwear and drink 2 liters of water, and I don't allow her to pee until 2 p.m. By 11am her bladder is visibly hard and swollen up to her belly button, and she is in tears. For the last half hour of her punishment, I make her take her underwear off and do exercises, and she leaks little spurts of pee. She doesn't enjoy it, but it seems to have increased her bladder capacity and she has many more dry nights.
Sometimes..
When i wet the bed, i get a boner then my mom comes in and tells me to stop and i do.
bed wetting
im 14 and i wet the bed...i tried telling my dad but he thought i was crazy and thought is was funny
its been like that for years...i know its nothing surious...i just wish my parents would understand...
i still sit around thinking "why wouldent they accept me"...if only they would listen and understand...
17 year old female
Hi!! I am a Female, 17 years old i have been betwetting since I was a kid but until now i still wet on my bed.. I tried to lessen the water I take everyday and I always go to the bathroom before I sleep but still I am wetting on my bed.. But sometimes it stops but just for one day then the next day I am wet in bed,, please help me I dont know what to do.. I am shy to tell anyone because I am not a child anymore.. please help me...
Panties down? WTF fuckin
Panties down? WTF fuckin pedophile. Is THAT why you became a father? Do you have a diaper fetish as well?
wtf? wow
omg you mothers who do that to your teenagers are horrible!!! they are not "little girls" and wow id hate my mom if she did that to me. you people sicken me. i feel so bad for your children. wow, at 14 you should be allowed to pick out your own clothes hairstyle etc...no not all decisions but they can deffinetly make their own decisions about what they ant to wear. they are not babies or dolls that you put diapers on! wow id say thats abusive in a way. i feel so bad or your children
14 male goin on 15
dude i have the same damn problem i hate it so much!! i want it to stop sooooooooooooooooo bad you dont even know >_> so far 2 people know that i do i think one person forget (im enemys with them now so i really hope they did forget!) and the other person that found out was my best friend joe and i can trust him to keep it a secret ive tryed everything try to keep your self warm i find that whenever i wet the bed im always cool when i fall asleep and wake up wet >_< BUT if i get to warm the same thing happens so i dont know... my mom took me to a doctor when i was 7 or 8 and he said i would grow out of it when i was 13, and now im 14 going on 15 in 3 months x.x and i STILL havent grown out of it if someone knows how to fix this please tell me! im so misrble i can stay at ANY friends house because i know it will ruin my high school life if everyone finds out :[
IM 12 AND STILL WET THE BED
i hate to let people know.its embarrasing {very} but i try to deal with it the only solution i have is try not to drink liquids at night but sometimes it doesnt help i just cant wait till i grow out of it.
i think that if you are 14,
i think that if you are 14, you can choose the clothes witch you want to wear.
Thank you, that seems like a
Thank you, that seems like a very good plan..i will try it! ha ha i a female and i am going to be 19 and i am so happy to know that there is a married woman out there...i am always scared that i will never get to be married...
Bed Wetting
I wet my bed until I was 13. It was traumatic to say the least. I always felt so embarrassed when sleeping over at someones house.
Husband Bed Wetting
Well I am 17 and i am married to her also she is pregnant. It happends on and off but not no more than 3 times a week. We have to wake up and she gets mad at me because she has to get up and she cant move around alot. I really do want to stop and show her i can do it so we can sleep good at night time. What should I do?
plastic pants
mike,thanks for your opinion.i told her i dont want her to wear the plastic pants any more,that its not healthy and that she is growing up and she just doesnt need them.she replied to me that she likes them and that they make her feel like a little girl.i told her i am going to throw them out and she pleaded with me not to.she will be 13 in a few months.should i let her continue wearing them and hope she decides she doent want them anymore?
I am 14 and wet the bed
I am 14 and wet the bed almost every night. I can't help it. I go to the bathroom before bed,and watch my drinking, but it doesn't seem to be helping. I absolutley hate it! I really truely want to stop, I am so tired of it. I get really nervous when I have sleepovers with my friends because I am afraid of wetting the bed. I wish I was normal,I really do. Awhile ago I stopped wetting the bed for a couple of months,I was thinking I was done for good, until I started wetting the bed constantly again. I am 14 and female. :( Please help me.
Plastic Pants
I experienced the same situation as a teen. Unfortunately, the situation turned into a fetish where sexual activity was greatly enjoyed while wearing the pants. Get her out of them now. Be firm and explain your reason.
Mike
ex-bedwetter
In my opinion, this is a matter of "who is in charge." You must insist that she wears diapers and rubber panties for all special occasions. A situation will soon arise where there is a boy present that she likes and she will not want to be seen by him to be wearing diapers and a rubber baby panty. She will say, "no Mom, I don't want to wear my short party dress with diapers and a rubber panty. You must insist that she is properly dressed in her best, frilly rubber panty with the matching ankle socks. When she is in the same room as the boy she likes, wearing diapers, rubber panty and frilly ankle socks when the other girls are wearing nylon tights, she will gladly give up the baby panties. But until then, you will need to be prepared to give her a hard spanking if she doesn't cooperate with her diapers and rubber panty.
ex-bedwetter
i need advice! my daughter is 12 and was a bedwetter for almost a year.she finally stopped four months ago.she wore the cloth diapers and plastic pants to bed every night.i got rid of the diapers but she still wears the plastic pants around the house and to church and on the weekends.she told me she likes wearing them.i want to get out of them.how can i get her to stop wearing them?
17 male still wet bed
well it doesnt happen as often as it used too, but i wet it last night. i dont wear any special pants or diapers. my parents dont understand that i cant feel anything at night. i falll into a deep sleep i guess, which sucks. im always worried about going to a cousins house or having them over because of this problem. im really tired of this, the smell and feel of it. Best of Wishes to everyone with this problem
ya im 16 and its really bad.
ya im 16 and its really bad. But somehow magically whenever i spend the night at someones house I dont wet.
To all Bed Wetters
I was recently speaking to a friend of mine who told me that her son now 21 had a bed wetting problem up until he was 10 years old. She took him to the Dr. to find out that is Uretha was too small and at night his bladder would overflow which in turn caused him to wet his bed at night. The Dr. did a very small procedure, prescribed some nasal spray and he never wet himself ever again. I have read alot of you guys testimonies but no one hardly mention if they had been seen by a Dr. or not. I just wanted to share this story and i hope it helps.
bedwetting
i am a girl and 14.i wear diapers and plastic pants to bed every night.they work .you should wear them also.
baptism
my husband and i just put our 14 year old daughter thru catholic baptism and did the traditional dress,bonnet,lace socks and shoes.we did a pair of baby print rubber pants on her under her dress without a diaper.the rubber pants made her feel babyish all day.
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