Enuresis is involuntary urination during sleep in a child who is already able to control their physiological needs during the day.
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Enuresis is involuntary urination during sleep in a child who is already able to control their physiological needs during the day.
Many adults today had to wake up in a wet bed as children. But wetting the bed once every few years is not the same as having enuresis. Urinary incontinence in a child, or enuresis, is a pathological condition observed in a child older than 5 years. Enuresis is not diagnosed at a younger age because children under 3 are mostly unable to control urination by willpower due to an immature nervous system.
The condition has the following characteristics:
CSM Clinic specialists can often help.
Treatment tactics depend on the causes of the incontinence. If the causes of childhood enuresis are diseases of the urinary and reproductive systems (inflammatory processes, chronic diseases of the kidneys, bladder, etc.), then after diagnosis and drug treatment, recovery may follow. Sometimes the condition arises from impaired secretion of antidiuretic hormone or compression of the ureter.
Heredity plays an important role: if both parents had enuresis in childhood, in about 75% of cases their child may also need treatment for enuresis.
Often enuresis is a consequence of perinatal damage to the central nervous system and a symptom of neuroses and neurosis-like conditions. It can occur even in initially healthy children because of overload of an immature nervous system, caused by constant conflicts in a children's group, excessive mental workload, or trouble in the family. In all of these cases, antibacterial therapy and physiological procedures alone are not enough, although they are also needed and are used as part of a comprehensive approach. If the condition is neurological in nature, treatment of enuresis in children in Kyiv at CSM Clinic, an experienced neurology clinic, may be needed.
The general symptoms of enuresis in children are similar:
The first step is a comprehensive urological examination (X-ray, uroflowmetry, bladder ultrasound, etc.) to determine the cause of the incontinence. If the tests show that the child's urinary system and genital organs are healthy, the child will most likely need treatment of nocturnal enuresis at a center that offers treatment of neurological diseases of varying complexity.
Causes of nocturnal enuresis in children may include:
CSM specialists consistently emphasize that neurological diseases do not go away on their own: at best, the condition may improve considerably as the child grows up. In reality, however, a child's small problems left to chance turn into large problems in an adult that are much harder to treat.
The same is true of enuresis: there are data suggesting that untreated enuresis in childhood may lead to bladder dysfunction in adulthood. In addition, a child's constant fear of being embarrassed in public is a major stress that can cause a serious neurosis. Therefore, it is worth starting treatment of nocturnal urinary incontinence in children by age 8 so as not to have to treat an adult with a host of urological diseases and psychological problems; such care costs significantly more.
Each young patient at our clinic is examined by several specialists, including a neurologist and a psychologist. Treatment begins with a careful assessment to determine the true cause of the condition: perinatal injury, neurosis, or other conditions.
Based on the history collected, the Center's specialist:
This is roughly what the comprehensive approach of CSM specialists to treating enuresis in children looks like. Many patients of the clinic complete treatment with an improvement that aims to be lasting.
Enuresis can significantly affect your child's life, turning a happy, cheerful little one into a gloomy teenager with a host of psychological problems. Do not wait until it is too late; contact CSM Clinic about treatment of enuresis now.
