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Saturday, May 25, 2013 Bedwetting, also known as sleep-related
enuresis, is the involuntary release of urine while a child
sleeps. Sleep-related enuresis is common in children with an
incidence of about 30% of four year olds, 15% of five year olds,
and 10% of six year olds. It gets better by itself as children
get older with only 3% of 12 year olds and 1% of 15 year olds
remaining affected. There is a clear genetic predisposition with
the highest incidence (75%) occurring in children whose parents
were both enuretic (bedwetters) during childhood. The exact
mechanism that explains the cause of sleep-related enuresis has
not yet been discovered. It is considered a disorder of arousal
in which the enuretic child fails to awaken during episodes of
bedwetting. There are two forms of enuresis: primary and
secondary. Primary enu