Bedwetting in toddlers

Bedwetting is an involuntary urination while asleep, urinating on the bed could be uncomfortable and humiliating, specially for older kids, besides that, because of that fear of urinating on the bed some kids avoid sleeping over at friend’s houses or camps, blocking the normal social life development of the child.
Boys has more probabilities of suffering for this problems than girls, and without the proper treatment this can last until puberty.
There could be many reasons why a child urinate on the bed, among them we have:

• Slower development of the nerves that controls the bladder and a bladder with less capacity.
• Also it could be symptom of a serious problem like diabetes or a urinary infection.
• Problems to wake up due to a deep sleep.
• Psychological causes: birth of a new baby, divorce or separation of the parents, a death in the family, physical or sexual abuse.

When the cause is psychological, this is a secondary problem, it means, it happen after the kid was able to stay dry during the night. when this problem is primary, on the contrary, the kid have never been dry for a whole night. Most likely this cause could be due to medical reasons or slower growing or reduced capacity of the bladder.
When is necessary to go to the doctor?
Is the kid drinking an excessive amount of liquids, urinates more than normal during the day or night and also shows other symptoms like fatigue, appetite increase and weight and itching on the genital area? In case that this is affirmative, take the child to the doctor.

The kid has fever, abdominal pain, or burning sensation when urinating? In case that this is affirmative, take him to the doctor.