Causes of bedwetting in children differ according to their health status and age. Sometimes, the main cause of this problem is a combination of many other causes. You do not have to know the real specific cause of your child’s bedwetting; you just have to find a way to stop it. The most successful approach can treat all the possible causes of bedwetting in children. Your child might have a combination of these causes.

• One of the major causes of bedwetting at night is what they call nocturnal polyuria or excessive urine at night. As a child grows older they develop a certain hormones that prevent them from producing too much urine at night. They can develop this hormone when they reach the age of 3 to 4 years old. This hormone is called an anti-diuretic hormone or ADH. This means that during at night they produce half of their urine output at day time. Children at the age of 3 to 4 who still urinate at night may lack the enough amount of this hormone. In effect, they will still produce too much urine at night the same as day time. Maybe the production of this hormone takes longer than ordinary and may eventually produce after 4 years old.

• Another cause of this situation is smaller bladder. Some studies find out those children who suffers from bedwetting has half of the size of the bladder of normal children. The scientific explanation for this is that if your bladder is always emptying during at night, your bladder will grow into its normal maximum size. Message coming from the bladder to hold on the urine is not reaching your brain, so it empties the bladder and eventually stays small. Restricting your body of the enough fluid requirements for the day will make your bladder smaller.

• Sleep disorder can be one of the main causes of this bedwetting. This disorder is an inability to wake up in a deep sleep during the night. This research has the most interesting findings compare to all. The research interview a lot of mothers and doctors about bedwetting and they all said the same thing that their child is in a deep sleep. It is a very ordinary situation for children who suffer from bedwetting. A child who suffers from this kind of disorder has inability to wake up.

• Children may suffer from a dysfunction bladder. A lot of studies regarding bedwetting find out that the muscle responsible for controlling urine is hyper active at night. It means that the bladder tends to send signals to the brain all night causing disturb sleep.

• The delay of signals between the brain and the bladder may cause too much urine at night. As your child develops, they also develop a connection between the brains to shut the pelvic to prevent them from getting wet during night. It seems that this connection is slower in some children, the brain do not get the message at the right time to prevent the urine from coming out of the bladder.

Jonathan Pitts

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