Healthy Life Journal

OVERCOMING wetting habits in children is not easy. Cooperation is needed between parents, children, and doctors. In addition, the necessary wisdom, patience, and understanding parents.

So many complaints from parents who worry about with their child’s bedwetting habits. Moreover, children still wet after passing the age of 6-7 years. Certainly would be a big question for parents.

Just what is mengom pol? And why it happened and how to train them to stop bedwetting?

Bedwetting is a medical term enuresis, the urine out unconsciously in his sleep at the age that should have been able to control the desire to urinate. Sometimes the definition of incontinence is also used to describe children who failed to control expenses in the urine when they are awake.

In fact, the teenagers and parents incontinence are also common. But for children, bedwetting is often a very embarrassing thing. As for parents, this can be a frustrating experience.

More than 50 million children worldwide aged 5-15 years were still wet. One in four children still wet when they were 3.5 years of age. Meanwhile, at the age of five years, one in five children still wet the bed and at the age of six years of falling into one of 10 children. Usually enuresis will stop when the child reaches the age of puberty. The boy who wet the bed more than girls.

“This is a hidden problem of childhood because people tend to not talk about it outside the house, so most kids think they are the only one with problems,” said pediatrician from Washington DC, United States and author of “Waking Up Dry” Dr. Howard Bennett.

Bennett mentioned the type of incontinence is divided in two. The primary wetting wetting wetting as a baby and the secondary re-wetting after the child never wet the bed again for a minimum of six months. The primary cause of incontinence due to the delay in the maturation process of the nervous system in children, in which the brain’s inability to capture the signal sent bladder, hormonal disorders, anatomical defects.

For example a small bladder and a very deep sleep so that the child did not wake when the bladder is full. While the causes of secondary bedwetting can be due to urinary tract infection, metabolic disorders (diabetes early age), spinal cord disorders, excessive pressure on the bladder, mainly due to interruption expenses, so the accumulation of dirt dirt colon will suppress bladder.

In fact, state of stress can also trigger secondary bedwetting. It was formerly regarded as bedwetting habits psychological problems. But, now known that biological factors play a role bigger. Can be ascertained also, it is declining in the family.

More than 75 percent of children who have parents with bedwetting problems, also will have the same problem.

“The story about these genetic problems to the child will make her better,” advises Bennett.

Bedwetting can also be a symptom of a serious illness such as diabetes or urinary tract infection, especially when there is a child who had never wet the bed. Bedwetting is not a child’s mistakes. Unfortunately, some parents still think that the wet comes from a lack of discipline, and can be cured by punishment.

This, Bennett bright, very far from the truth. Research shows that as many as 25 percent of parents punish a child or to show a significant disagreement when children wet the bed because they thought the child was a mistake.

What to do if the child’s parents is act naturally wet, do not show resentment, anger, or even panic.

Discuss good with the kids. There are many cases where children stop wetting after talk of caution. Give support to children, this is the most important actions.

Never embarrass a child or other children to compare with, even if the child had not wet my pants and give him gifts of praise about his success in front of many people, so he’s more motivated.

Ask your child to change the bed linens and clothes at night, when the child is already able to do it. Or put a rubber mat covered with a cloth on the bed, so that children can dibasahinya cover sheets. Then, install an alarm clock that will ring 2-3 hours after the child was asleep, so he can wake up to go to the bathroom.

In addition, make sure your child to urinate before going to bed. Encourage your child to follow instructions from a physician, such as relaxation exercises or practice bladder hold urine or discharge behavior modification exercises. If necessary, buy an alarm antimengompol suitable for children aged five years and over.

This alarm has a moisture sensor is worn directly on the underwear. In the first drops, a buzzer buzzing, wake the child. Gradually the child learns to wake up when they feel the urge to urinate.

Which should also be noted by parents is, incontinence can be cured himself. A child pengompol requires patience, passion, patience, and confidence of parents that the problem is only temporary. Usually between 7-12 years of age often cure, and few children who continue to experience it through adolescence.

One thing interesting, breastfeeding (breast milk) can prevent ongoing incontinence in children. A study published in the Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics states that babies are not breastfed are more likely to wet than breast-fed babies.

Research from the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Jersey, United States states other than the rich in important nutrients for infant growth, milk also contains fatty acids that can improve and accelerate the growth of the brain, while wetting themselves due to inhibition of brain nerve growth (delayed neurodevelopment ).

From the results of studies conducted on 55 children aged 5-13 years who were still wetting the bed and their 117 never wet, showing the percentage of children who wet the formula-fed about 81 percent, while those who routinely get only 45 percent milk.

However, the most remarkable in this study were either infants who consumed formula or breast milk instead experienced similar results with infants who received only formula milk without milk. In addition to preventing incontinence, breast milk is also known to work to reduce the risk of diarrhea, respiratory infections, ear infections and other infections that occur in infants.