When should I get help for my child's bed-wetting?

When should I get help for my child's bed-wetting?

Scott Cohen (Pediatrician, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center) gives expert video advice on: Is it normal for children who are potty-trained to continue wetting their bed?; How can I train my child to not wet his bed? and more...

We usually get concerned with bed-wetting if it's something called secondary enuresis, and what that is: primary enuresis means that you're wetting but that you've always been wetting, and these are the kids that for the first six years are dry occasionally but sporadically wet their bed. But when you've been dry for a good three months, day and night, and you haven't had any accidents and then out of the blue, all of a sudden you start wetting your bed again or wetting your pants during the day. This should be investigated because there are other cause of bed-wetting that we should look at: things with infection, diabetes, different types of diabetes (insipidus and mellitus), that with certain urine tests we can check to see if there is anything going on. And if there is nothing, it could still be nothing, and we just do some behavioral modification. But those are the times when it's new, out of the blue, or they're complaining about it, it's effecting your child and that when it should be brought to your doctor's attention.