Kidalog/Baby Love Products, Camrose, Alberta, Canada
According to statistics quoted by Kimberly-Clark there are
700,000 children who are night-wetters. These large numbers must
mean that this is normal for children.
36 months
is the average age of a child to be toilet trained during the
day.
Bedwetting almost always happens for physical
reasons; rarely for psychological ones. Genetics play a large
role--if other family members had a tendency to wet at night,
a child may have inherited that tendency. Some children are very
deep sleepers so they do not wake up when they need to go to the
bathroom. Some children have a small bladder so cannot go through
the night without needing to empty it. Some children produce more
than the usual amount of urine at night. Most kids outgrow bedwetting
when developmentally ready. (10% of 7 year-old children are night
wetters; 1% of 16 year-olds are night wetters.) Bedwetting alarms
or anti-diuretic hormones are used by medical professionals when
treatment is necessary.
Child Health Clinic
Misericordia Hospital, Edmonton
