BED WETTING
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Most children wet the bed occasionally,
and definitions of the age and frequency at which bed-wetting
becomes a medical problem vary somewhat. Many researchers consider
bed-wetting normal until age 6. About 10% of 6-year-old children wet
the bed about once a month. More boys than girls have this problem.
The American Psychiatric Association, however, defines enuresis as
repeated voiding of urine into the bed or clothes at age five or
older. The wetting is usually involuntary but in some cases it is
intentional. For a diagnosis of enuresis, wetting must occur twice a
week for at least three months with no underlying physiological
cause. Enuresis, both nighttime (nocturnal) and daytime (diurnal),
at age five affects 7% of boys and 3% of girls. By age 10, it
affects 3% of boys and 2% of girls; only 1% of adolescents
experience enuresis.
Enuresis is divided into two classes. A child with primary enuresis
has never established bladder control. A child with secondary
enuresis begins to wet after a prolonged dry period. Some children
have both nocturnal and diurnal enuresis. |
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