Bedwetting Alarms

The behavioral training for stopping bedwetting, bedwetting alarms are extensively used. These alarms are most of the time a moisture sensor attached to the bed or clothing of the children. These alarms sense the moisture and inform the wearer by way of sound, vibration etc. There are many types of alarms available in the market including:

• Auditory Alarms
• Vibrating Alarms
• Wireless Alarms
• Bell & Pad Alarms
• Wearable Alarms

Many companies manufacture such alarms with wide variety and are used for waking up the affected to use toilet and void. These alarms work in the same fashion. The alarms either vibrating or auditory went off with the first drops of urine by sensing the moisture. The sensor of the alarm is normally attached to the pocket of the pajamas which senses the moisture. A speaker or buzzer is fixed at the shoulder which is triggered by the sensor with a very deep sound which makes the children to stop urinating.

The waking up is another part of the therapy, the child may not be ready to wake up in the beginning and somebody must wake them up and to take them to bathroom. After some period, however, these children learn to wake up with the alarm and with some more time, learn to stop bedwetting.

Bell & Pad Alarms

The Bell & Pad bedwetting alarms are fitted in the bed and when the bed is wetted by the child, the sensor triggers the alarm fitted somewhere in the room.

Wearable Alarms

The wearable bedwetting alarms are made in such a fashion that it becomes no hindrance to the normal sleeping. As to say, the wearable alarms are available in much fashion. The sensor is either fitted in the pajamas pocket or in the underwear with the bedwetting buzzers somewhere near the ear. Belt alarms and other types of wearable alarms are available in the market. The difficulty in these alarms is the connection between the sensor and the speaker or buzzer.

Wireless Alarms

Wireless alarms are the resultant bedwetting alarm to solve this problem. The sensor is connected to an attached transmitter which transmits the signal to a receiver attached to the buzzer which then triggers the alarm.

There are some problems with these alarms, such as a hearing impaired child may not be helped with these auditory alarms. The buzzer may do any thing and nothing is heard from the user’s side. Therefore, vibrating alarms are being used in such condition. Instead of using a speaker or buzzer, a small vibrating motor is fitted to the body. When the sensor triggers the signal, instead of an auditory alarm, a vibrating alarm went off and awakens the child.

Using bedwetting alarms are not a matter of present day. It is being told that very before time, in Africa, frogs were attached to children as bedwetting alarms. These frogs on moisturizing make sounds and the child are being awakened. But the electronic alarms give more convenient way and let the frogs be living in their own!