For all families with children with enuresis The website has just been launched. Wet the bed that aims to serve as a reference and information for all parents who want to know more about this disorder. Currently more than one million Spanish children suffer the problem without the possibility of just telling anyone because of the shame that it entails, something unprecedented if one considers that approximately 85% of cases are due to hereditary causes: father, mother or first-degree relative have suffered the disorder in their childhood.
The high rate of patients who use the network as a source of consultation and information and the absence on many occasions of information contrasted by specialists, has led to the creation of this site that was born with the vocation to respond, from a scientific point of view , to the main issues that arise around enuresis. Experts in the field provide a detailed information about the pathology: what is enuresis, why a child can wet the bed, frequency, types of bedwetting, therapeutic options, emotional consequences for the patient, location of nearby specialists according to the area of residence, and everything that the enuretic and his family can be useful
In addition, Wetting the bed, sponsored by Ferring laboratories, allows, through “the expert responds”, to raise issues that concern them, offers material for children. For example, voiding calendars so that they can keep track of their dry or wet nights by drawing figurines on each day, which will allow them to actively participate in the control and solution of a problem.
Wetting the bed is, from a certain age, one of the most traumatic and painful events for children and adolescents. Experts believe that 5/6 years is the age at which every child should physiologically control their sphincters and stop wetting the bed at night, is the age at which it begins to be considered that the child suffers enuresis.
The doctor is the one who can determine the cause of this disorder and rule out the possible suffering of more serious diseases such as diabetes, urinary tract infections, malformations or others.
Many times this pathology is hidden, undiagnosed, because the families themselves lose importance when they think that it will be resolved with age, when in reality the severity and frequency of symptoms increases. Early treatment of bedwetting is important to prevent subsequent psychological disorders. Children who wet the bed become more passive, withdrawn and tend to have low self-esteem. They are children who tend to have nightmares and suffer anxiety, a profile of introverted children with depressive, violent or dependency tendencies is usually created.
Despite such high incidence figures, it is striking that only 2 out of 10 enuretics is evaluated and treated at some time by a doctorWhen, if the specialist establishes the exact diagnosis and applies the appropriate treatment, the results of resolution of the problem are close to 100%. It does not seem logical that, even knowing the medical causes of bedwetting, 60% of children must use a diaper every night and the remaining 40% directly wet the bed during sleep.
