What can I do about bed-wetting?

What can I do about bed-wetting?

Jennifer Anger, M.D, M.P.H. (Assistant Professor) gives expert video advice on: What can I do if I can't make it to the bathroom in time to urinate?; What can I do if I lose control of my bladder when I sneeze, cough or laugh?; What can I do if I lose control of my bladder when I lift weights? and more...

Enuresis, which is bed-wetting, happens in young people and in older people, and a lot of people who just sleep too heavily. It can be due to patients with an overactive bladder, but they do not wake up because they are heavy sleepers. Often when I have a patient who wets the bed at night, I have patients fill out a void in diary. They collect their urine in a hat they put in the toilet and dump it. And the important thing to find out for me, is are they actually making more urine at night? Because that we treat differently than patients who have over active bladder that they sleep through. So I think that getting up at night or peeing at night in the bed, or enuresis, should be evaluated by a physician.