As mentioned earlier, urinary control is essential in development of the child’s self-image and self-esteem. Based on those conclusions from child psychologists and psychiatrists, the ability to overcome enuresis is important.
Between the ages of 4 and 5 generally their whole world is mom and dad. There is little peer pressure or interaction between other children in relation to the bedwetting. Lack of self control can undermine the bed wetter’s confidence.
At the age of 5 they begin school. They begin to associate with other children and discover that not everyone wets the bed (even though there are unknown cases of other enuretics in their class). The child suffering from enuresis develops fears of being found out and they realize that they cannot stay overnight freely. Since most enuretics are bright and sensitive, they can develop feelings of low self esteem affecting them into adulthood.
By the age of 9 or 10 the child’s confidence can certainly be affected. There can be a reduction in the ability to perform in school, and most all of them fear that the bedwetting will be discovered by friends. They will often make excuses about staying overnight and going on camp outs. At this stage parental frustration and irritation can set in with the end result being feelings of failure and defeat by the bedwetter.
These things that can occur, combined with the lack of a proper REM cycle, can result in other problems that make it difficult for the enuretic to perform. Some enuretics have a hard time waking up and are cranky. In some cases it can take as much as 15 or 20 minutes to awaken them and to get their “motor running”. Others will often exhibit a short attention span or become fidgety and not be able to sit still.
Bedwetting is a serious problem. Children cannot easily go to sleepovers or have other children spend the night with them. After they reach school age they began to feel that they are different. While many other children do wet, the bedwetter believes that they are the only ones who have this problem. The fear of being found out is always with them. Even if they do not vocalize it, it does bother them.
Do not be fooled by kids that say it does not bother them. It does.
Many parents think that children who wet the bed after 3 or 4 years of age have a physical or psychological problem. Even parents of bedwetting children do not have a real understanding of Enuresis which in most cases (96%) is caused by a minor sleep pattern disorder.
Thousands of parents are happy to find out that this is a common problem shared by 17% of children. This means that 4 to 5 million children in this country suffer from this serious problem.
Do not be fooled by the child who says “I don’t care”. It has developed into a degree of normalcy within them. They do care. You will soon find (because of the misconceptions about Enuresis) our society sometimes places harmful pressure on our bedwetting children. When they continue to wet into adolescence it can result in impaired learning capability.
Home remedies generally are not effective and are sometimes potentially harmful for the bed wetter.
Bedwetting is a Major Parasomnia and the World Health Organization recognizes it as a sleep disorder. The International Bedwetting Clinic’s available decades of research shows that the Enuretic does not sleep correctly. They do not get proper REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep.
The child who has the problem of bedwetting can have negative self esteem or poor personal self image. They feel differently, different than their friends. They can develop a complex because they are unable to comfortably do a lot of things that children normally participate in, such as sleepovers.
Bedwetting, left untreated, can stay with an individual into adulthood. The poor self image and low self esteem that can develop with this problem prevents the enuretic from being all that they can be.
Generally, most Enuretics are bright, loving, affectionate, and generally sensitive. They can be overactive. Sometimes they can be a bit squirmy and unable to sit still. They can have a poor attention span. They will often daydream. The teachers could say that your child is very bright, but does not work up to their potential. That they could do better.
With The International Bedwetting Clinic’s decades of available research and advanced modern technology, we are able to obtain a cure rate of 98%.