Looking For Enuresis Information – Find Out About
The Enuresis
Alarm
Peter Crump
Enuresis is the term that doctors use when they are talking about
bedwetting. Bedwetting that occurs during the night is called
nocturnal and this conditions affects people of all ages. It is
quite common for young children to wet the bed during the night
but it becomes a source of alarm for parents who have teenagers
with enuresis. In addition, the teenagers themselves are
embarrassed and don’t want anyone to know about it. Adults too
are embarrassed by bedwetting and try all sorts of treatments to
help reduce the occurrences.
Once a medical condition as the cause of nocturnal enuresis has
been ruled out, then it is time to start trying various methods
of treatment for enuresis. One of these is the enuresis alarm,
which will wake up the person wearing it at the first sign of
moisture. There are various kinds of these alarms and at varying
prices. They also differ in the sound of the alarm they emit to
wake a child or an adult out of a deep sleep. For children, there
are alarms to help reduce the number of nocturnal bedwetting
occurrences with funny sounds and blinking lights, which really
makes them attractive.
Using an enuresis alarm is a form of behavior modification. In
most cases of children and teenagers who wet the bed, they have
not learned how to sense the body’s signals that the bladder is
full. The nocturnal behavior needs to be modified so that they
will learn to wake up on their own. Once a child or an adult
wears the alarm for a period of time, he/she will get used to
waking up at a certain time to go to the bathroom. This is one
way of reducing the episodes of nocturnal enuresis. It has been
proven that these alarms do work to reduce enuresis within a few
weeks.
When you are buying an enuresis alarm, there are some factors
that you need to keep in mind. It must be comfortable for the
child to wear. If it isn’t, it probably won’t have any effect on
the nocturnal enuresis because nine times out of ten the child
takes it off when he/she goes to bed. It also has to be set to
the right moisture sensitivity so that a child with enuresis will
have enough time to make it to the bathroom once the alarm wakes
him/her. At the same time, you don’t want to have the alarm too
sensitive because perspiration may set it off.
An enuresis alarm must be easy for the child to reset when he/she
goes back to bed without having to wake you up to reset it. If
not the child could wet the bed after that and still feel guilty
about the enuresis. There are alarms of this nature that the
parent can reset by means of remote control from the bedroom, but
this also means you have to wake up when the child goes to the
bathroom. Chances are, though, that if you have a child with
enuresis and he/she wakes up to go to the bathroom, it will be a
cause for celebration and everyone in the house will be up.
To find out more about Bedwetting visit Peter's Website
Bedwetting Answers at http://www.bedwettinganswers.com/ and find
out about Teenage Bedwetting and more, including Adult
Bedwetting, Bedwetting Alarms and Bedwetting Diapers at
http://www.bedwettinganswers.com/teen-bedwetting.html
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