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BED-WETTING – PROBLEM OF DISTRESSING
Enuresis or bed-wetting is a problem that is distressing both to the parents and the child.
Yet this common disorder usually responds well to treatment.
Control of the bladder during the day and then at night depends on the maturing of the child’s nervous system. Most children achieve control by the age of three or four.
At five, about 10 per cent of children still wet the bed and this figure drops to about 5 per cent between the ages of six to 10. At IS, only 0.1 per cent, or one in a thousand, still has the problem. Bed-wetting can continue into adult life.
It is not considered a problem until the child is over six. As you can see from the figures, most children overcome the problem, given time. But because of the emotional difficulties suffered by these children and often by their parents as well, enuresis usually needs treatment.
It is twice as common in boys as in girls and is not related to intelligence. Nor is it a problem of our anxious modern society. It is an ancient disorder and is well recorded in old medical texts.
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