Bedwetting & Incontinence

Bedwetting at night (also called nocturnal enuresis) happens during sleep. Your child can't control their bedwetting, so it's not their fault. Wetting the bed at night (nocturnal enuresis) is very common in young tamariki. It affects approximately:

15 in 100 5 year olds
5 in 100 10 year olds
2 in 100 15 year olds
1 in 100 adults.

Bedwetting occurs slightly more often in boys than girls.

Experts don't consider bedwetting to be a problem until children are about 7 years of age. That is a good age to introduce treatment programmes if your child wants to do something about it.

At Urology Associates we have a Specialist Nurse who can help your child. We run a bed alarm program which is nurse-led, and the child would be referred on to a specialist Paediatric Urologist if there were any other concerns or they did not respond to the alarm program.