My friend has a son who is six years old and still wets the bed, how can she make him stop?

Question

She had tried cutting out all fluids 2-3 hrs before bed time. and she has tried getting up in the middle of the night to take him to pee only to see that he had already peed himself. Does anyone know how she could help him?

Answer 1

Well the first thing she needs to do is have him checked by a doctor.  If there is no medical reason for his bed-wetting then she needs to just relax.  She can't "make him stop".  Goodnights make disposable underwear for children his age.  Get him some and just give it time.

Oh...BTW...scolding him, punishing him, telling him things like "only babies wet the bed" is the absolute WORST thing she can do.

Answer 2

Take him to the DR...its not a matter of making him stop.  In children, their bladder may still be small.  Instead of freaking on him...get him some goodnights to help him wake up with a dry bed...and see what the Dr says.

Answer 3

My daughter is 6, and she still wets the bed.  I had the doctor see her to make sure that nothing was wrong.  He said she will grow out of it eventually.  My theory........They make pullups and good nights in large sizes for a reason.  We dispose of them on the mornings she is wet........no big deal, and on days when she stays dry Yeah!  

Answer 4

He will grow out of it. My cousin did.  

Answer 5

Sometimes they just have to grow out of it.  My nephew was 10 before he stopped.  His problem was that he was just too heavy of a sleeper, and I guess his bladder wasn't big enough to hold it until morning.

Answer 6

"How can she make him stop?" Has she tried finding out the real cause of his bedwetting? Her nagging or a medical problem?!?!? She needs to take the child to his doctor, assuming he has one, instead of asking a bunch of strangers who know absolutely nothing about this child.  

Answer 7

take him to the doctor to have some tests done.  Six is not terribly old to be doing this.  He may have an imature bladder.  Some kids simply cannot help it.    I had a daugther do this until she was almost 13.  They ran tests and found out that her bladder spinchter was not mature enough.