Bedwetting can be incredibly frustrating, particularly when it continues despite your every effort to make it stop! Understandably, our efforts become increasingly desperate as children approach adolescence and enter High school. From your question, it is difficult for me to determine what measures you have tried. When it comes to the more traditional measures, conditioning alarms continue to experience the best outcomes, it is worth keeping in mind that these do not always meet with success at first, and may take two or three concerted efforts. There are also some more alternative methods that have met with different degrees of success. Hypnotherapy has been successfully used to help children either hold their urine overnight or wake up and go to the toilet. This can be used on its own or in combination with the conditioning alarm. Your best point of contact for hypnotherapy is the Australian Hypnotherapists� Association http://www.ahahypnotherapy.org.au/, which has branches in each state. Another alternative form of treatment that has met with some success is chiropractic manipulation. This does however seem to be only relevant for children whose bedwetting is the result of a poorly aligned spine. If this sounds like a suitable option you should first contact the Chiropractic Association of Australia http://chiropractors.asn.au (1800 075 003) who will be able to recommend someone in your area that has experience in treating children�s bedwetting. A close friend of mine whose daughter only stopped wetting while on medication (much like your son) found a significant improvement in her daughters nighttime wetting following a change in diet which included removing dairy, wheat and citrus from the menu. It is often a matter of trial-and-error, each child is unique and what works for one does not necessarily work for all. In the meantime it is important that you try and ensure his nighttime incontinence does not restrict his activities or prevent him from accepting social invitations � it�s often helpful to talk to parents or friends before staying overnight and prearrange a place where he can discretely change his clothes or dispose of his DryNites. While I understand his reluctance to wear absorbent pants, the less his bedwetting interferes with his life the better he will feel about himself.

Regards,
Dr Cathrine

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