Bedwetting
This tag is used to pull content into the Behavior Health Center, subtopic Bedwetting Behavior.
Bedwetting and Baby Food
Early childhood nutrition is fundamental to how the brain and nervous system develop. Babies' brains are structurally different, depending on what they eat in the first two years of life. Optimal nutr…
Tonsillitis A-to-Z Guide: Overview, Diagnosis, Treatment & Prevention
Introduction to tonsillitis: If you look into your child's throat, you might see what look like small, dimpled, pink golf balls on either side of the throat. These are the tonsils. If they get infecte…
Enuresis: A-to-Z Guide from Diagnosis to Treatment to Prevention
Introduction to enuresis: Most children learn how to stay dry during the day before they're able to stay dry at night. Millions of kids wet the bed long after they feel that they should be dry. Sadly,…
Snoring!
Parents are quick to mention some things to their pediatrician: fevers, seizures, bleeding. Snoring is another important symptom that your child's doctor needs to know about, though it often goes unre…
Dry Nights
Several of the nation's leading bedwetting experts gathered earlier this year to candidly discuss the issues surrounding the millions of school-age children who wet the bed. I participated in what pro…
Sleep Terrors, Sleepwalking and Bedwetting: The Effect of Naps
Sleep terrors, sleepwalking, and bedwetting all fit into the category of "partial-arousal parasomnias". Although there is a genetic predisposition to each of these conditions, a report at the 2001 ann…
The Most Common Form of Bed-Wetting!
Children who can control their bladders during the day, but who have never been dry at night for at least a six-month period, have what is medically known as primary nocturnal enuresis (PNE), the most…
How do Bed Wetting Alarms Work?
Dr. Greene's Answer: Bed-wetting alarms are among the safest and most effective of all therapies for bedwetting. The alarms have a simple moisture-sensor that snaps into your child's pajamas. A small …
Mark McGwire Steps Up to the Plate for Kids
Almost 7 million school-age children (in the United States alone) go to bed dry and wake up wet. Most of them feel like they are alone. They often feel guilty, inadequate, and ashamed. And their paren…
Bed Wetting Causes
Dr. Greene's Answer: Children who can control their bladders during the day, but who have never been dry at night for at least a six month period, have what is known medically as primary nocturnal enu…
Secondary Enuresis – Bedwetting Is Not a Laughing Matter
Dr. Greene`s Answer: You are right, bedwetting is not a laughing matter -- for nearly 6 million people in the United States alone. Not only is there a social stigma attached to bed-wetting, but it cau…
Alternative Bedwetting Prevention
Dr. Greene's Answer: Star charts prove very beneficial to some children, used either alone or with a bed-wetting alarm. As you know from experience, you wake up more easily when the day holds promise …
Bedwetting Alarms
Dr. Greene's Answer: How frustrating! His sleeping through the alarm, though, is a sign that treatments aimed at making it easier for him to wake up are likely to be particularly effective for him. Be…
Bed Wetting
Dr. Greene's Answer: Contrary to popular opinion, bed wetting is a very common problem. It affects somewhere between five and six million children. Unfortunately, most of those kids and their parents …
Fast Facts about Bed Wetting
Contrary to popular opinion, bed wetting is a very common problem. It affects somewhere between five and six million children. (more…)…