Bedwetting is a problem that mostly affects children. Your bladder involuntarily empties during the night. Most of the time, the children don’t make it to the toilet in time and often they don’t even wake up. Up to a certain age, children naturally have trouble controlling their bladder at will. This is usually the case by the age of five. However, if older children still occasionally wet themselves during the night, that is a problem.
Homeopathic remedies can be helpful in relieving children of emotional distress and stress. The aim of homeopathic treatment, in addition to stabilizing children, is to reduce bedwetting at night.
Which homeopathic remedies help?
Physical symptoms are described below. Choose a homeopathic remedy for bedwetting that best suits your situation.
Ferrum phosphoricum
Bedwetting in pale and tender children. After every drink, the children have to go to the toilet immediately. They wet more during the day than at night.
China
The patients suffer not only during the night but also during the day from the inability to hold their urine. You feel a frequent urge to urinate and urinate copiously. The urine is milky-cloudy.
Ferrum metallicum
Involuntary urination during the day.
Sabal serrulatum
Constant urge to urinate during the night. The patients have to get up several times because otherwise they will wet the bed.
Children
Sepia
As soon as the child falls asleep, they wet almost immediately.
Silicea
Children who have worms cannot hold their urine at night.
Causticum
Children wet the bed in the first few hours of sleep. They are pale and have dark circles under their eyes.
Potassium phosphoricum
Persistent nocturnal wetting in nervous and easily excitable children.
Opium
For children who wet themselves again after a fright, although they no longer needed diapers.
Medorrhinum
Nocturnal wetting in children. The urine flows in large quantities and is dark in color.
Plantago major
Bedwetting in children and adults at night. Patients wet themselves several times during the night. This happens despite precautions such as going to the toilet before bed or drinking little in the hours before bed. During the day, patients rarely go to the toilet. The amount of urine excreted during the day is significantly lower than the amount during the night.
Creosotum
The children sleep noticeably deeply in the first half of the night and then wet themselves unnoticed.
What is bedwetting?
The doctor speaks of bedwetting (enuresis) when the child is older than 5 years and regularly wets the bed over a longer period of time. The problem is only called bedwetting if no other disease or organic changes in the urinary organs are the cause. A distinction is made between primary and secondary bedwetting. If the child has never been dry for a long period of time, it is a primary form of enuresis. Bedwetting again after children have dried up is called secondary enuresis.
Causes
Bedwetting in children at night can have a variety of causes. These range from physical causes to hormonal disorders and genetic disorders.
- developmental delay
- genetic predisposition
- Insufficient development of the nerves that are necessary for the voluntary voiding of the bladder
- Bladder too small or urine volume too large
- Hormonal disorders in the regulation of water balance and depth of sleep
- stress and grief
- Overactive bladder or holding children too often
For children from 6 years to the doctor
If children continue to wet themselves regularly during the night after the age of 5, there is often a disorder that should be taken seriously. In addition, the problem also means considerable suffering for the children. The children do not want to stay with friends or go on a school trip because they are ashamed and afraid of being ridiculed by others. The affected children often try to hide the problem from family and friends, but bedwetting can be treated well.
What they can do themselves
The psychological strain is not only high for the children, but also for the parents. Refrain from punishing your child or stopping them from drinking in the evening. However, a moderate restriction of the drinking amount in the evening is justifiable if the child drinks enough during the day. A waterproof pad on the mattress is a sensible purchase. As a rule, children of this age no longer tolerate it if you try to put a diaper on them during the night.
