Bedwetting Alarms - Jacksonville,FL

I had a friend that tried one. Her son slept right through it, he just had to outgrow the bedwetting. My own son was a bedwetter until he was 12, I never tried the alarm because he was (and still is at 30) a very heavy sleeper.

My brother tried everything, he was still wetting the bed in high school. None of them worked. The worst one came off while he was sleeping, he peed on it, it started sparking, lit on fire and he still didnt wake up. If your child is so young that he/she would play with the wires, he too little to be expected not to wet the bed. Pull ups or a plastic mattress cover under the sheets are your best option.

They do work. They worked on me when I was way to old to be wetting the bed (12). I don't have a brand recommendation. If you are worried that your kids will mess with the wire, it seems to me you are probably pushing something on a child that is WAY TO YOUNG. Those systems take some motivation on the part of the child. If your child is old enough to be embarrassed about bed wetting, then your child will be motivated to get themselves to the bathroom when the alarm wakes them from a dead sleep. Of course I was 12. I'm sure some help from mom is in the cards for a younger kid. To me the alarm was nothing short of a miracle. But in reality, its a tool that will help a self motivated person learn to wake up to use the bathroom.

does your son/daughter have a bladder issue that would cause you to use one? I hope you are not going to purchase one just bc your child is trying to potty train. or do you just want to know in general for someone else?

Yes, they absolutely do work - but not for every kid, not for kids who are ok with wetting the bed, and not for younger kids (under 8).

My son was 9 when we got a wired alarm from www.thebedwettingstore.com. It took 8+ weeks for him to be totally dry. I slept in his bed with him for 4 weeks to physically wake him up when the alarm went off. After 4 weeks he would respond to the alarm on his own. You HAVE to follow the instructions. If you just put it on the kid and send them off to bed you will fail. It takes commitment, from you and the child. If either of you aren't committed don't start, it won't work.

He didn't play with the wire, but it did get yanked off a couple of times in his sleep. It didn't happen enough that we had to address it, we just refastened it and went back to sleep. I wouldn't get the wireless one because the ones I looked at the alarm base was either next to the bed or across the room - for my kid that alarm needed to be at his ear to wake him up, next to the bed wouldn't have worked.

ETA - just saw from some of your other posts that your child is 3. WAAAAY to young for an alarm, you will just scare the hell out of her. Buy pullups. If she's still wetting in 5 years have a full workup with your pedi then think about alarms.

Nope, they are a waste of money. All they do is wake everyone up, make even more laundry since you have to change the sheets in the middle of the night then as soon as they go back to sleep they wet again.

Since bedwetting is entirely out of their control there is nothing a bedwetting alarm will do.

Kids are supposed to be like adults. When they go to sleep their brain turns off the stuff not being used and puts it in sleep mode. The kidneys are supposed to stop producing urine when a person is asleep. If the brain has not turned that ability on then the kidneys are producing urine all hours of the day and the bladder is not able to do anything about it.

Kids are supposed to go to sleep and stay asleep all night. It is not their nature to wake up and go pee. They are supposed to not make urine when they are asleep. But if their body/brain is not there yet the kidneys keep making it. So there is not much you can do until that chemical reaction turns on.

Making a child wake up during the night numerous times plus you having to get up numerous times during the night is not only pretty much a waste of your rest time it only serves to make this child sleepy and cranky.

Do yourself a favor, and them too, and put them in overnight pullups and let everyone in the house get the needed sleep.

If you compare how much all that extra laundry and use of your time is going to raise your utility bills and laundry costs you will see that the few cents you use each night for a single pull up it is pretty close.

I would rather use a pull up and everyone get rest and have my days free to do something besides excess laundry. This seems to be the better more cost effective way to handle a child who has no control over his kidneys while he is asleep.

Several people I know, (myself included) used this on a child and it worked amazingly well. No - they did not yank wires or anything because they were already elementary school aged and were highly motivated to quit wetting the bed. It worked within a week in all 3 children (all around age 7) I know.

I do not remember the brand - it was very long ago, but it was very simple and relatively inexpensive.

I'n not a big fan of those. We used night time pull-ups and let nature take its course. I think he was about 5 when he actually told me he didn't need them anymore. No reason to stress over potty training.

Wetstop II is the best for the price. They get very expensive. You can get that one for $50 on Ebay, and it comes with a very well written book on causes and treatment for bedwetting and a how to video for the device.

No the child will not tug on it. It was fairly light and clips easily to clothing. I had a hard time hearing it..even set on high. The child could hear it and there is a vibration mode, much like an old school pager, which is key (as these are best used on children who are heavy sleepers). To remedy my not being able to hear it, I used our baby monitor for a while.

You need to wake up with your child and be sure they are getting to the bathroom when the alarm goes off. Especially if they are a heavy sleeper, which is a common cause of bedwetting. It startles them, so they instinctively stop wetting when they wake up. While mid-stop, you need to get them to the bathroom as quickly as possible so they can finish what they started. You will find, the wetting happens about the same time(s) in the night. Yes, as a previous poster mentioned, it is hard on a parent to have to wake up once or sometimes twice through the night, but this period of reconditioning doesn't last long and the results are well worth it. Pullups are expensive, the house and child's things can smell like urine, and it's embarrassing for the child in the long run if they want to spend time away with friends and unecessarily so, because this is a treatable problem for most children if the parent is motivated. While a child may wake up cranky, believe me, they are ECSTATIC when they're able to get rid of the diapers.

Keep in mind, the alarm slowly trains them and their bodies to be aware of this and to wake themselves so they can go on their own. But they'll need your help. If you expect a child to get themselves to the bathroom on their own, they won't...they'll stay in bed and just turn off the alarm. The parent needs to be involved. As I said, the good news is, some if not most kids ( like ours) respond to this "therapy" very quickly. Others can take longer, but these alarms do work. It's up to the parent to be motivated to help their child.

Besides the alarm, you will find from reading the accompanying book, there are dietary changes and pre-bedtime habits you will need to follow that also aid in stopping bedwetting.

This product and most others do not recommend using an alarm until after age 6. Before then, most consider night-time wetting normal. After age 6, most children's bladders are fully formed and are therefore able to hold urine for longer periods. So when a child is older, chances are greater there the child is just a heavy sleeper who is missing the physical cues to go because they're not aware of them.

Other causes include food allergy (dairy allergy is a big culprit in bedwetting), and yeast overgrowth syndrome. Taking a probiotic supplement for a few months can cure the yeast problem and of course avoiding dairy will help if there is a dairy allergy at play. A physical condition like constipation can also cause bedwetting as it can mask the body's cues making it hard to know when they need to relieve themselves. In that case, it is recommended serving more fiber and drinking more liquids during the day to get regular, then begin night training with or without an alarm in that case. The accompanying book goes into much more detail and list way more causes as well.

Lastly, sometimes a medical condition is at play that may require surgery or drugs. But according to the book these cases are rare and it states that if you follow the diet changes and nightly routine they recommend, your child will overcome bedwetting anywhere from 2 weeks to 6 months with the alarm.

Our bedwetter, was about 6 and a half when we tried the alarm. We had instant success with the alarm. But first we did an intensive probiotics treatment for 3 months prior to using the alarm (you can get this at any vitamin store). Also 3 months before, and then during using the alarm, no dairy or wheat-gluten based foods, more fiber like fruits and veggies, and being vigilient our child was getting adequate water for his age before 6pm, but no more liquids after 6pm or at least two hours before bedtime. It took a week on the alarm and no more nightly accidents.

Mid-week of the second week, we had an accident, but we also let our child have something forbidden on the food allergy list that day and think that played a role in the backslide. After that day and going back on our strict diet changes, we had no more accidents while using the alarm whatsoever. Though he seemed "cured," we continued to use the alarm just in case for a full 4 weeks, and they didn't wet the bed at all during that period of time.

Since going off the alarm over a year ago, we litterally have only had two accidents. Both happend after our child ate foods on our allergy trigger list, so we know for certain if we avoid forbidden foods, we won't have an accident. For us, we found food allergies and heavy sleeping were our problems. From what I've read and understand, everyone's causes are different. I think the book that came with our alarm was the best part of the alarm. I learned alot and it helped make this whole thing a success and was able to find patterns and a possible cause - actually I'm certain allergies were THE cause for us.

Hope this helps.

I'm sorry, I don't know the name of the product we used for my son, but it worked SOOO well!!

The unit we had was wireless. There was a sensor that went into his underwear (I sewed a little pocket in his underwear to hold it in place). The main unit with the alarm hung on his headboard. There was no sleeping through this alarm!! We practiced before we started using it at night, we had him lay down on his bed, I set off the sensor with a little water, we practiced having him get up and walk to the bathroom. The web site for the product we got had A LOT of customer feed back and suggestions and they were very helpful.

Give it a try, it is so worth the money. (BTW, my hubby sold it later on e-bay and made most of our money back.).

M.