Electronic bed-wetting alarm and toilet trainer.

Electronic bed-wetting alarm and toilet trainer.

In many children with enuresis repetitive awakening by an alarm as soon as urination begins will gradually train the brain to exert automatic control over the bladder. The child will eventually either wake up before urination or sleep throughout the night without needing to empty the bladder. Such treatment is accepted as the most successful way of curing bed-wetting and may result in over 80% ...

Drugs for bed-wetting.

Bed and toilet height as potential environmental risk factors.

Seat height that is too high (> 120% of lower leg length [LLL]) or too low (< 80% of LLL) can impede safe transfer and result in falls. This study examines the difference between LLL of frail nursing home residents and the height of their toilets and beds in the lowest position, compares the patient or environmental characteristics of those able to transfer from the bed or toilet to those who c...

Bed wetting in school children of Karachi.

OBJECTIVES To estimate the frequency of primary nocturnal enuresis (PNE) in Pakistani children and to examine the factors associated with it. METHODS A randomly selected cross-sectional study was conducted in five elementary schools, one in each of five districts of Karachi. The parents of 5000 children age between 3-13 years were asked to complete a questionnaire which included items about t...

Treating Paediatric Bed-wetting with Chinese Medicine