What Causes Bedwetting (Enuresis)?

The major cause of bedwetting in almost every case is as an inborn sleep disorder. When the bladder sends signal to the brain that it is full, the brain due to the deep sleep fails to respond and the involuntary emptying of bladder takes place.

The sphincter muscle which controls the urinal outlet from the valve, if weaken contribute towards the bedwetting. Smaller urine bladder size may also be one of the enuresis causes. Little kids of two years or less age who are bed wetters should be considered as normal. The bedwetting causes of these kids are that the bladder does not send any signal to brain as is to inform the stress and the bladder involuntarily gets emptied. Eearly toilet training imposed on children may also lead to bedwetting. This gives stress to the children and the mental situation may lead to nocturnal enuresis.

Normally, the bedwetting reduces quickly with aging. Primary nocturnal enuresis is caused by physical and other physiological factors.The primary nocturnal enuresis is a very common disorder during the childhood.

Normally bed wetters create more urine during night than the normal person. Thus when normal people need not to urinate during night time, the bedwetting people has to urinate. The main reason related to this is the inverse difference between the strength of the muscles which squeezes the bladder and sphincter muscle. When the squeeze is more powerful than the sphincter, urine passes breaking the barrier.

Light sized bladder also is one of the bedwetting causes. Another factor in forming enuresis is the intake of more liquid before bed time, diuretic medication, which increases the production of urine etc. Diabetes and urinary tract infection also keeps a sound position in the list of bedwetting reasons. The urine production in the cases of diabetes is increased to expel the excess glucose in blood.

During night time, the ADH hormone is produced more and controls the urine production. The level of this hormone may also contribute in bedwetting.

Till now enuresis causes does not include the deep sleeping as one of them. But some researches show that bedwetter is less-responders during sleep than the normal children. They were hard to wake type compared to others. Thus the signal which goes from the bladder to brain may necessarily contribute to the waking and thus the overfilled bladder empties involuntarily.

The physical bedwetting causes includes lesions in the lower spinal cord, inborn deformations of the genitourinary tract, and diabetes. Sometimes, the nightmares and sleep walking adds to the list of enuresis causes. As normal the hormones play a big role during the nightmares and produces more urine than usual. Also the muscle contraction is high during the process and thus the bladder is squeezed at a higher pressure, hence sphincter muscles cannot hold the urine. A tragedy or any other strong stressed happenings in the youngster’s life also causes bedwetting. The psychological reasons play a vital role in formation of nocturnal enuresis. New researches show that enuresis causes include food allergies too.