Patient's question:
The child is a 6-year-old girl who wets the bed at night. How to treat it? She has been doing so for 1 year, and most nights she wets the bed. About past treatment and effectiveness: She has not been treated. What kind of assistance is desired: We want to ask the doctor how to treat it.Doctor's answer:
The causes of bedwetting in children are divided into functional and organic categories. The former is related to intergenerational inheritance and is more common in neurotic children. The latter is a symptom of certain diseases. Congenital brain development disorders, functional disturbances of the brain caused by various factors in later life, loss of reflex arcs in the spinal cord, or lesions in the urinary system and its surrounding structures may all lead to bedwetting. Before the age of 3, since the central urinary function has not yet matured, the occurrence of reflexive urination at this stage does not fall under this condition.