Healthy Considerations

Primary enuresis or primary nocturnal enuresis (PNE) is when a child has easily developed the ability to control their bladder during the daytime but still after a six month period cannot control their bladder at night while they sleep. Bed wetting affects approximately five to seven million children every year, more boys than girls. Primary enuresis is particularly common in children who are six years and younger and in most cases it’s something that children will outgrow. Studies have shown that approximately every fifteen out of one hundred children who are chronic bed wetters simply stop the behavior on their own and require no doctor visits or treatment whatsoever. Primary enuresis is believed to happen for one of two reasons. First the child has an immature bladder, either in a physical sense … Read entire article »