Stop bed wetting

[Justme]

Wow, that is a great solution. My grand daughter isn't that thirsty, tho. She and her sister will go practically all day without drinking or peeing. But she still manages to wet the bed at night. She just sleeps so soundly that you could set off dynamite beside her and she would only turn over in her sleep.
One thing others with your situation might watch for tho: persistant thirst is one of the signs of type 1 diabetes, so if your young'un is always thirsty, you might want to check with your doc.

Yes I know as diabetes does run in the family but it is good that you also let others know. In my case though we have always been heavy water drinkers. We typically put the 8 glasses a day recomendation to shame especially in the summer. In my daughters case I sometimes think it might have been a comfort thing since she never had a baby bottle but from the time she could hold a water bottle she was constantly stealing mine. I guess she associated it with security.
About that sleeping soundly thing she'd sleep through smoke alarms and the thing is right outside her bedroom door which was. Always kept open.

 

[krstms]

I've been dealing with my son's bedwetting too. He's 12 and has aspergers. He used to sleep really deep like the rest of you described but now he wakes up pretty easily, except when he pees. He almost never has a dry night. He has wet right from diapers on. I've tried alarms which he had some initial success with until he tears them up so they wont bother him at night. Like the other mom who has a child with aspergers said, he doesnt seem to care about the smell or wetness. He gets up and throws his pull up in the floor where it gets squashed and stinks terrible if we dont go in and make him do something better with it. I've been told his great grandpa wet until he was 18 and his grandpa wet until 16. Dad never had a problem but obviously it does run in the family. I would love any ideas you can come up with cause I'm lost. He has been tested and doc said he's not allergic to gluten so I dont think the diet thing would work here. Thanks in advance for any advice.

 

[Marianne]

I saw that this is your first post, so welcome to the forum.

I was saddened to read your post about your son. I don't know much about aspergers, I'm sure that's putting the bedwetting into an entirely different category. Maybe someone else here has something to offer.

We had one child that had a problem w/ bedwetting. I tried everything, too. Then someone casually mentioned that her son had a milk allergy that caused him to wet. I didn't believe it until I noticed that if our kid had milk at supper, she wet the bed. If she had ANY other beverage, she didn't wet.

Made no sense, but it made a believer out of me. As an adult, she has some problems with milk.

 

[me&thegals]

We had this in our family, and I hate to say it but it didn't end until somewhere between ages 10 and 11. I got a plastic bed pad and placed it on top of the bedspread, then covered the child with a heavy blanket above. That way I only had one pad and 1 blanket to wash on wet nights.

 

[krstms]

We had this in our family, and I hate to say it but it didn't end until somewhere between ages 10 and 11. I got a plastic bed pad and placed it on top of the bedspread, then covered the child with a heavy blanket above. That way I only had one pad and 1 blanket to wash on wet nights.

Unfortuantely because of the sensory issues with his aspergers he won't leave any kind of plastic covering on the mattress or pads of any kind on the bed. He wears good nights type diapers but they always leak. He has ruined several mattresses. I'm not sure what to do. Does anyone know of a homemade diaper that might hold it in better or something.


Thanks Marianne for the welcome! I wanted to add that as weird as it sounds someone at work told me that she knew someone who had a child wetting the bed and the dr suggested removing the tonsils as a solution. Not sure why that would work but like raro said it must have something to do with it. I know my son has frequent strep infections. I am pretty much lost as to what to do.

 

[Denim Deb]

Is there any way you could put something under the mattress pad, like those pads they make for dogs? Then, it wouldn't be right next to him and hopefully, it wouldn't bother him.

 

[Marianne]

Boy, I got nothing....

In your research, you didn't glean any info from support groups for aspergers?

I'll ask my neighbor if she knows of anything that might help. She's pretty knowledable with herbs, etc.

 

[hqueen13]

I have a friend with a son that has aspergers, and he wet the bed for a long time. I'll try to get in touch with her and see what they did to make the change. He was another one that didn't really seem to care, and would leave the pullups on the floor, too.
Playing around with diet can't hurt, of course. Testing out to see if eliminating various things could stumble upon something that might help. I've gotten to the point where just because a doctor tested doesn't mean that it is or isn't true. You might experiment with gluten and see if it does anything, its worth a shot (and a pretty simple fix if it works). I have a processed diary allergy, it makes my nose run. Not exactly your normal allergic reaction. Took me years and finally just elimination to figure it out. I can drink raw dairy with almost no problem (though I stay away from it during spring just as a precaution due to my seasonal allergies).
It may also help to look in the GAPS diet, which has a lot of success with Autistics, so I don't see why it wouldn't help with Aspergers too.

 

[krstms]

Thanks for the welcome. I appreciate your help! I will give some of your suggestions a try. I would really appreciate it if your friend knows of any herbs that may help. I've never tried that. Thanks again for trying to help!

 

[so lucky]

I second the idea to check out the GAPS diet. It is a total change to the way nearly everyone eats, but if the problems are bad enough, a mom will try just about anything.