How to Clean a Mattress after a Bed-Wetting Accident Most children who wet their beds eventually grow out of it. Cleaning up is a snap with these simple tips. Step 1 Blot the urine Blot the urine with paper towels. Step 2 Mix solution Mix a solution of ½ cup white vinegar and 1 quart warm water. Dampen the urine-stained area with the solution, wait a few hours, and then soak up any excess liquid. You can substitute hydrogen peroxide for white vinegar. Step 3 Mix cornstarch and water Mix cornstarch and water together until you get a thick consistency. Step 4 Spread Spread the mixture over the stained area, let it sit until dry, and then vacuum it up. Step 5 Mix vinegar and dish soap Mix a solution of ¼ cup white vinegar and ½ cup liquid dish detergent. Step 6 Apply solution Apply the solution to the stain and let it sit for 30 minutes. Then soak up the solution and sprinkle it with cornstarch. Step 7 Let dry Let it dry and vacuum it up. Kids usually grow out of bed-wetting.
About 13 percent of 6-year-olds wet the bed, while about 5 percent of 10-year-olds do.Night time potty training is very similar to bed wetting, and it can be confusing what the difference is. Night time potty training are for children under the age of 5, their bodies are typically growing at such a fast rate it can be hard for their bladders to keep up. Bed wetting is for children from the ages of 5 up to 13 years old who have wetting accidents during the night. Parents can often get frustrated about night time accidents, thinking children do it because they are "lazy" or being rebellent. MOST children can not help are having bed time accidents, and that is exactly what it is: an accident. Achieving night time potty control is not simply a learned skill, but rather a physiological development and the control is largely involuntary. In some cases, circumstances require learning how to achieve night time control (see bed wetting section). Babies urinate around the clock and then at about the average age of 18 months, as the sphincter muscles mature, toddlers will make the transition from urinating around the clock to only urinating during the waking hours as is the case with most adults.
Having to urinate at night is not an issue with most adults, since when an adult's bladder is full at night, a signal goes from the bladder to the brain and we are awakened with the need to go. For children, this signaling mechanism comes with age. Most pediatricians do not consider bed wetting an issue until after the age of five. Below is a table that shows the age at which children achieve night time control. % of children have achieve night time control The key to dealing with night time accidents is slightly different from dealing with day time accidents, because night time accidents are NOT voluntary. Your child does not have ability to control the accident, so, there are no consequences given. As you face another clean up, realize that this is hard on your child as well. S/he does not want to have accidents any more than you do. Therefore if you child is having more than 2-3 accidents per month, I would recommend using disposable pull ups and making it less stressful on everyone involved.
Monitor the situation and try to switch to cloth training pants or underwear again, when your child is older and may have achieved night time control. If you child is wetting at night and is trained during the day, consult with the child's pediatrician, especially if the child is 5 years old or older. So, if you are going to use the disposable products, I would recommend following: If your child is wetting occasionally, 2-3 times per month, you may want to use night time cloth training pants. If your child is wetting only 1-2 times every 3 months - I would recommend switching completely to regular underwear and using a good mattress pad until s/he is completely dry. The bottom line is that just over half the children (66%) will be dry at night by the age of 3; however 33% of children or 1 in every 3 children will still wet at night when being potty trained in the day time. So, to be successful with night time potty training (I mean success in term of the least amount of stress on you and your child), do the following:
Wetting the bed at night (the medical term is enuresis) is more common in adults than you might think. It affects about one person in every hundred, mainly men. 100 000 teenagers in the UK wet the bed, some only occasionally, while others may never have experienced a dry night. Many feel so embarrassed that they hide it from their families and can find it a barrier to forming close relationships. It can be especially difficult when staying away from home. Here we provide information on: The causes of bed-wetting in teenagers and adults What your doctor can do If you also have difficulty holding your urine during the day, look at the section on urinary incontinence. Dr Phil Hammond looks at the frustrations of bed-wetting, with a little help from ‘Henry’, in his informative and entertaining guide on bed-wetting (click on video below). Written by: Dr Margaret StearnEdited by: Dr Margaret StearnLast updated: Wednesday, June 10th 2015 Useful contacts for Bed-wetting in teenagers and adults
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