Is bedwetting hereditary? Yes, and we help your child become toilet trained.

Bedwetting, also known as nocturnal enuresis, is a common problem among children. While most children become dry at night between the ages of 3 and 5, this is not the case for everyone. About 15% of 6-year-olds and around 7% of 8-year-olds still wet the bed. As unpleasant as this is for the child, heredity plays a significant role. But no worries, we help your child become toilet trained.

What does hereditary mean?

Heredity means that certain traits or conditions are passed from parents to children through genes. This also applies to bedwetting. If one of the parents wet the bed for a long time as a child, there is about a 43% chance that their child will also wet the bed for a longer period. If both parents took a long time to become dry at night, this chance even rises to 77%! This has been shown by various scientific studies.

Why is bedwetting hereditary?

Bedwetting can be hereditary due to several factors. One of the most important is the development of the bladder and its control. For example, a smaller bladder may hold less urine, requiring more frequent urination at night. Or a bladder that functions less well, such as an overactive bladder.

Additionally, the production of the so-called antidiuretic hormone (ADH), which reduces urine production at night, may be lower or less effective in children who wet the bed.

Due to heredity, these factors can be passed on to your child, affecting bedwetting from generation to generation.

What can you do?

It helps to realize that your child cannot help wetting the bed longer than average. As a parent, there are several steps you can take to help your child with bedwetting:

• Patience and understanding: It is important to be patient and understanding. Bedwetting is not done on purpose, and punishing your child does not help. In fact, it can backfire.
• Routine: Establish a regular drinking and urination routine during the day and around bedtime. Encourage your child to drink well in the morning, urinate frequently during the day, and limit drinking in the last hour before bedtime.
• Medical help: Consult your doctor if your child is around 7-8 years old and still has bedwetting issues. Or earlier if you suspect a physical cause for the bedwetting.
• The best advice: Start with the Uriflex bedwetting alarm training!

The Uriflex bedwetting alarm training

Uriflex introduced the bedwetting alarm in the Netherlands in 1954 and has since developed the most successful bedwetting alarm training. This is the solution for children who have no physical cause for bedwetting.

The bedwetting alarm – and there are many available on the market – sounds an alarm when your child starts to urinate. The idea is that your child wakes up quickly and well, so the bladder is still almost full. By repeating this night after night, your child learns to recognize a full bladder in time and wakes up on their own. This is called the wake-up reflex.

In practice, bedwetters are difficult to wake up. You may recognize this in your child. There is a chance that your child will sleep through the alarm of the bedwetting alarm and only wake up when the bladder is already empty. Or they wake up from the alarm but are so groggy that they do not realize what is happening at that moment.

In these situations, using the bedwetting alarm has no effect.

Urifoon is the only supplier of bedwetting alarms where you and your child are coached by an expert during the use of the bedwetting alarm. So throughout the entire bedwetting alarm training.

With very targeted exercises and advice, your (very) deep sleeper will wake up quickly and well from the alarm. You will see progress quickly, and the success rate of the bedwetting alarm training is by far the highest. Significantly higher than when you get stuck during the training and your child does not respond well to the bedwetting alarm.

More than 90% of children are in control of their bladder at night within 10 weeks. Not just for a while, but for the rest of their lives. We have been researching this structurally among our users for years, so we know what we are talking about. But more importantly, hundreds of real customers give their opinion about our bedwetting alarm training.

Conclusion

Your child's bedwetting may be determined by heredity. With patience, understanding, and the right approach, your child can become dry at night. Your doctor can also advise on this. If there is no physical cause for the bedwetting, the Urifoon bedwetting alarm training, including coaching, gives you the best chance that bedwetting will soon be a thing of the past.

Do you have questions about our bedwetting alarm training or want to know more about bedwetting or our bedwetting alarms? Let us know!