Bed Wetting - Atlanta,GA

I asked this question last year on here about this time. Many of the moms suggested Chiropractic. I was very skeptical but finally decided to give it a try late last summer since everything else failed ie...nothing to drink after supper, the potty alarm, and setting an alarm clock in the middle of night to wake him. So I brought him in and told him flat out what his problem was and found it hard to believe that chiropractic could take care of the problem. It's amazing! After just three adjustments, he only had one accident. The Dr, wants to continue to see him though at least once a week but to me, it's worth it since his room doesn't stink like pee anymore.

You mention some of the things you have done- but have you been to a pediatric urologist?? It is helpful to know what the cause is for your child.

After 20 adjustments from the chiropractor - I would be doubtful that it is going to make a difference - we saw a chiropractor and he told us that IF it was going to work - at what point we would see results - he did not string us along.

I did learn that it is NORMAL up until age 15!! So for the mom who said it is not normal - nope - it is! That doesn't mean that it is good for self-esteem and body image - but it does not make your child abnormal.

My son wet the bed until he was 13. Once he stopped it was immediate...

Ive had three bed wetters . and it only stopped when they hit purperty.
I was a bed wetter also. you can have nothing to drink and wet the bed. but another day u can have loads to drink and its dry. there is nothing that will make it better. but one good thing to help u stop doing loads off washing is buy pull ups or night time nappies. and also get plastic mattress covers to stop mattress getting ruined, also the same with the pillows hope this helps ..

Have you talked to his doctor about this? 11 is really too old to be wetting the bed unless there is some sort of medical problem, and if there is, maybe you can get him some help.

Sometimes children just sleep so soundly that their body can't wake them up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom. We had great success with a bed wetting alarm. It's a device that will make a noise or vibrate when your child has wet the bed and (hopefully) wakes them up then. It trains their body to recognize the signals that they need to go to the bathroom and wake up.

Good luck!

Diabetes, hypercalcemia,( too much calcium), and /or too much vit D can cause night wetting.
Since milk has 8 times the calcium than it does magnesium, then milk in excess can cause hypercalcemia. Plus milk is loaded with excess vit D. So I would cut the milk products way down, and see if it helps.
Then I would watch his blood sugar levels, cutting down drastically on processed carbs, and trying to eat a protien with a complex sugar, for example a piece of cheese with the apple. If it were me I would give magensium citrate as well, as magnesium works as a chemical gate blocker for nerve impulses to muscles.
Im sure you would see a change with a serious diet change.

Is he constipated also? My daughter was so severly constipated that the compacted poop in her colon and intestines put too much pressure on her bladder and it would trickle out in her sleep.