Sleep apnea is a potentially dangerous condition in which a child stops breathing during sleep for 20 seconds or more, or a shorter period if accompanied by bradycardia (slow heart rate). According to the authors of "Wong's Essentials of Pediatric...
Waking up in the middle of the night to see an embarrassed child who has wet his bed is a typical occurrence of parenthood. The Mayo Clinic says that bed-wetting is also known as nighttime incontinence or nocturnal enuresis. It states that...
"Sugar diabetes" is a somewhat outdated term for a group of diseases that come under the umbrella term "diabetes mellitus" which literally means "sweet urine." As the term may suggest, diagnosing diabetes was once done by tasting patients' urine;...
Bed wetting is especially common in children under 3 years of age. The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry reports that bed wetting is not itself a disease, but is instead a common symptom among children, especially boys. Bed...
The urinary system consists of the kidneys, ureters, bladder and urethra. After the kidneys produce urine, the urine travels through the ureters into the bladder. The bladder holds the urine until elimination occurs. Children develop bladder...
Once babies hit the toddler stage, many parents encounter urination problems that vary in severity from occasional bedwetting incidents to potentially life-threatening bladder infections. Educate yourself about toddler urination problems so you...
Occasional bedwetting and other mild bladder issues come with the territory of having children. But in some cases, they may point to a more significant or chronic problem that could require medical attention. If you think you have reason to be...
The actual causes of bedwetting, or nocturnal enuresis, often differ from parental perceptions. In the August 2006 issue of the "American Journal of Nursing," Amanda K. Berry wrote that while most parents understand that children cannot control...
Enuresis is involuntary urination, also termed incontinence, which can occur during the day or night. Nighttime incontinence is called nocturnal enuresis. Enuresis is a normal physiologic response between 2 to 4 years of age. Beyond this age,...
Once children are 6 to 7 years old, they should have enough bladder control to stay dry through the night, according to the Mayo Clinic. If your child's bed-wetting--otherwise known as nocturnal enuresis--doesn't have a physical cause, such as a...
Most children gain the capacity to hold in their urine while they're sleeping, but for some, bed wetting is an inconvenience that lasts through adolescence. Although it may be an embarrassment for affected teens, it isn't entirely uncommon....
Enuresis, or bedwetting, is fairly common among children and adolescents. In many cases, it is something that your child will just grow out of on his own. In order to speed the process along, however, you can help to limit nocturnal urination by...
Some healthy 5-year-old children still wet the bed at night; in such cases, wearing a diaper at bedtime may be a reasonable precaution. Note, however, that incontinence sometimes occurs as a symptom of a serious underlying medical condition...
