Parents asked and we answered: Bedwetting Uncovered!

Most Common Bedwetting Questions Answered by Leading Children's Expert

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TORONTO, Aug. 23, 2011 /PRNewswire/ - Parents want answers to questions about bedwetting. In reality, bedwetting is a common medical condition affecting more than 500,000 Canadian children aged five years and older.^1,2 Parents asked and Dr. Norman Wolfish, paediatric nephrologist, answered the most pressing questions about bedwetting, which are featured on the SavvyMom YouTube channel.

Dr. Wolfish has spent years counselling parents on the best ways to help their children overcome bedwetting. Now, through a series of online videos, he's answering the most common questions that parents have. In an interview conducted for the parenting website, Savvymom, Dr. Wolfish explains the condition, dispels myths and offers solutions to the problem that bedwetting can be for many families. To take this a step further, Canadian parents submitted their own questions to get answers directly from the expert himself.  Many parents don't realize that:

• A child who wets the bed more than twice a week is very likely to continue wetting the bed into late adolescence, resulting in serious long-term consequences such as low self-esteem and anxiety.³
• Bedwetting also has implications for sleepovers with friends or school trips and summer camps and family vacations, as parents are wary to plan overnight trips for fear of their child having an accident in someone else's bed.⁴
• Bedwetting is a condition many parents find hard to talk about with other parents, as it can be embarrassing; however, it is more common than they may think.

Bedwetting is not the child's fault; it is a medical condition that can safely and effectively be treated by a variety of medical and non-medical therapies.¹ Parents are encouraged to speak with their child's physician about bedwetting to discuss the best treatment options available.

About Bedwetting

• The medical name for bedwetting is primary nocturnal enuresis.
• If both parents wet the bed when they were young, there is an 80 per cent chance their child will wet the bed.²
• If only one parent wet the bed when they were young, there is a 50 per cent chance their child will wet the bed. And there's still a 15 per cent chance their child will wet the bed even if neither parent did as a child.²

Links

• To view Dr. Wolfish's Savvymom interview, you can follow this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx0nnju2YSw
• To view the questions parents had for Dr. Wolfish and his answers, you can follow this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ut14AI4fjt4&feature=related
• To find out more about bedwetting, visit www.savvymom.ca

References ___________________________________________

1. Wolfish, N.M. and Pham, C.. Management of nocturnal enuresis in children. http://www.cpjournal.ca/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.3821per cent2F1913-701X-142.2.76&ct=1#i1913-701X-142-2-76-b5 . Accessed August 2011.
2. Bedwetting: What's normal, what's not. C-Health. http://chealth.canoe.ca/channel_section_details.asp?text_id=3158&channel_id=2015&relation_id=13596. Accessed August 2011.
3. Yeung, CK et al. Differences in characteristics of nocturnal enuresis between children and adolescents: a critical appraisal from a large epidemiological study. BJU International; Vol 97:1069-1073
4. Leger Marketing Survey. 2010.

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