Bladder Control Training in Treating Bedwetting

Some parents still believe that an early toilet training is harmful to their child or children. This thought is promoted by some pediatricians and child care specialists. But there is no evidence of scientific feedback of the same.

Early bladder control training once had a bad reputation because of its wrong training methods. The earlier training techniques are never associated with behavioral methods. Bladder retention control can only be imparted after both the readiness of children and the parents. A health care provider can only give bladder control training after assessing the child’s and parent’s readiness. The health care provider must know about the child’s day time and night time activities, physical and mental abilities, etc. He also should know about the child’s bladder situation, sphincter muscles, moodiness, able to cope up with pressure or not, cooperativeness, etc. These factors are really impact plan and timing of training. Once all the relevant information got, the professional and the parents can impart an appropriate bladder control program.

These training techniques generally takes some months for the program to complete because the sleep cycle requires to grown-up so that the child can wake up in time to urinate. If the child is ready to cooperate with the program, parents can give confidence the child to keep dry nights by making number of trips to the toilet before bedtime. It can also be done by keeping a potty near the bed for effortless access.

Continuous bedwetting in school age mentions a professional’s assistance. Parents have to admire successful toileting and give the child more range of toilet behaviors. When the child completes each step of bedwetting bladder control courses, he/she achieves a sense of success and this should be reinforced by child’s parents.

Self-respect or self-esteem of the child is so important during the training period. Hence, it is pertinent that the parents should support the child throughout his/her training period. After the relationship of parent and child stressed due to any accidental bedwetting, both the child and parent require a halt from training and to focus on entertaining and enjoyable activities together.

For a successful training, the parent-child relationship needs much improvement and to have a stronger mutual trust. Meanwhile the child can restore his self-pride or self-esteem which might have broken during a bedwetting accident. If such bedwetting accidents occur, the parents should act as more understandable and cooperate with the child and never discourage the children as he feels like a failure. Always keep the child’s self-esteem high.

The bladder retention control training can be achieved also by several therapies associated with the treatment of bedwetting like motivational therapy, behavioral therapy, positive reinforcement training, biofeedback training, etc. We can say a child is achieved bladder control, when there is no accidental leakage of urine.

Bedwetting can occur both in day time (Diurnal Enuresis) as well as in sleep (Nocturnal Enuresis). To achieve a proper goal or result of the bedwetting bladder training, the parents have to instruct their child or children properly.