It is still considered normal for children 6 years old to wet the bed, so unless there are other symptoms, it will most likely just be a matter of time for your child to grow out of the bedwetting. You could try to manage bedwetting by getting your little one to reduce how much they drink before bedtime and you could even try out some bladder training, but remember to consult your medical professional first. However, at such a young age, bedwetting is not considered something that you should worry too much about. Reassurance and your encouragement is what your child really needs. Many parents ask our expert all sorts of 6 year old bedwetting questions, including queries regarding children who have been dry for some time and just recently started wetting the bed again, and how to strengthen the connection between their child’s brain and bladder. Read on for a list of the different questions all related to 6 year old bedwetting.
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anziety child still wetting at night
Hi T.M., While it is highly unlikely your son’s anxiety has anything to do with his bedwetting, the treatment of children’s bedwettin…
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My 6 year old daughter has bed wetting problems but also wets her nappy before she goes to bed.
While there may be an underlying medical issue, your daughter’s behaviour may also be a reaction to something else going on in her life…
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hey Dr Catherine you answerded my question 20 days ago but the thing is I am not constipated though I go regular and it wasn’t the kind of poo you described as constipated kind it was normal and soft
Hi Bridget, lovely to hear from you again. You do not indicate whether this has happened again or if it was a one-off incident. Sometimes…
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my child is 6 and has a g tube and eats over night . we use night time diapers and we need more. help we have the pad from the hospial but they are hard to come by . my house smells like pee help me please karen
Hi Karen – this is a very challenging situation. Given your daughter’s medical situation I would strongly recommend that you get in …
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My children have kidney reflux. Does this make them have less bladder control? i.e. more likely to take longer to have bladder control at night?
Children diagnosed with kidney reflux can experience bedwetting as a symptom of this condition. Depending on your daughters diagnosis, c…
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Hi There, My son who is 7 yrs old next month has wet dry nite pull ups 7 days a week only at night. He is asking me ‘mum why dod I wet the bed? how come I dont have a dry bed? then he says ’im learning’ but when mum? I feels embrassed and hides his pull-u
Hi Y. J., bedwetting can be incredibly frustrating especially when there seems to be no obvious cause. As a parent, the most important t…
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my daughter is 6 and wets every night we put her on the toilet before we go to bed but even then she still wakes wet in the morning, we used to use night knickers but earlier in the year she said she didn’t want to wear them anymore & I’ve been washing sh
Hi M. B. – given your daughter’s desire to move toward greater independence it would certainly be worthwhile making an appointment fo…
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Hi, my 6 year old son wears 2 pull ups to bed every night and sometimes still wets the bed as it soaks right through. He sometimes has small leaks during the day from “holding on” to long. What can you suggest we do to get keep him dry through out the n
It is not uncommon for children your son’s age to still be wetting the bed on a regular basis; bedwetting is far more common among boys…
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My son is nearly 7 and has probably only had about 10 dry nights in his life and those only with us waking him before we go to bed. He wets himself 2 or 3 times in the night. We tried the alarm about 4 months ago but after 2 weeks I was chronically sleep
Given his daytime wetting it is a very wise decision to have him checked by your GP. Your doctor will want to know things like how often…
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Ask a question now…Hello Cathrine, my son is 6 years old and earlier in the year we had a great run of weeks of dry nights with only the odd wet one. Then he developed a slight cough and we were back to wet every night.
Hi S.C. – as children move toward achieving permanent nighttime continence it is not unusual for them to waiver between periods of dryn…
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Is this bed wetting or a behaviour thing.
Hi Rochell, it is highly unusual for children to be able to control their nighttime wetting in response to requests or external rewards, …
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Ask a question now…My youngest son aged 6 has mild ADHD he started wetting the bed again at age 3. Now he might even wet twice a night and then is grumpy in the morning. We used night nappies until six months ago as he would wet through these and now we
Hi Pamela – it is not unusual for children diagnosed with ADHD to take a little longer to achieve nighttime wetting than other chi…
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Hi, my 6 year old daughter is a bed wetter. We have her in pullups to save laundry, as she has managed only a couple of dry nights in a row. We have tried a few times without nappies, but inevitably there will be wet nights again. She says she wakes on
Hi Belinda – bedwetting can result from a number of factors with the three most common causes being (1) an overproduction of urine…
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My 7 year old son has always wet the bed occasionally but recently started wetting on most nights. We’re using Dry Nites but he developed a nasty urinary tract infection that saw him end up in hospital. Are there any clinics where I can hire a bed wetting
Hi A. L., your best course of action is to speak with a continence advisor who will be able to recommend a suitable alarm for your son. …
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My daughter is 6, 7 in Sept and we really want to get her off her Drynites – she never has a dry one during the night?
Hi Paula – Your first step is to meet with your GP just so he or she can run a few tests just to make sure your daughter’s nighttime we…
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My 6 year old daughter has ADHD and wakes up wet each morning. I understand it may be harder for her to have dry nights but will the antidiuretic hormone still be produced by the time she gets to 8? Should I be getting help for her now?
Hi Simone – The incidence of bedwetting in children with ADHD is about two to three times higher than for other children. Children with A…
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My 7 year old daughter wets the bed every night. I put her in a Huggies Nappy and have solved the problem that way. But she is to old for this please help
About six percent of children continue to wet the bed at night by age 7 years – so you are not alone! While many children do outgr…
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Hi there, my daughter is nearly 8 years old and she has been wetting the bed from since I can remember, we have been to doctors, etc and no one has really explained or helped us with it. She doesn’t just wet herself once but a few times a night, she says
Hi K.W. – the majority of children who wet the bed have nothing medically wrong with them. While doctors and researchers have bee…
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Hi there, My 6 & a 1/2 yr old was dry for about 2 years and then about 8 months ago started wetting the bed every night. It was near the end of her first year of school and I thought it was just tiredness but it is still going.We have tried the alarm with
Hi Louise, given your daughter was dry for over two years it would be a good idea to first have her checked by your GP just to make sure …
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My son is 6 yrs old he is being wearing dry nights and most of the time he is dry I just recently took of the Dry nigths and let him sleepy in his pjs and he is weting the bad every night what sholud I do?
It is very common for children as they move toward achieving permanent nighttime continence to oscillate between periods of dryness and t…
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Our 6 year old son has been on and off successfully training at night time for the last 6 months. The washing of pjs and mattresses is quite constant now- do we put him back in dry nights- or will this allow him to become lazy?
It really is a personal decision as to whether or not to use DryNites. Many parents (and children) choose to use DryNites to reduce the s…
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Hi, I have a 6 1/2 year old daughter who has been wearing pullups for the past year before that she was wearing nappies at night. When she was in nappies she had not had a dry night. A year ago, I started getting her up at 10pm and putting her on the toi
Hi Vicki, in order for your daughter to become dry at night she either needs to learn to wake in response to a full-bladder or her bladde…
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Hi my boy is soon to turn 7. He suffers from diabetes insipidus, what is the likelihood that he will ever be able to manage his bladder/bowels?
As diabetes insipidus (DI) has a number of causes, the outcome really depends on the underlying disorder. I would strongly recommend tha…
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Hi Dr Catherine, I have a six year old son who wets the bed and has worn night nappies continuously. He used to have great control during the day but that changed when he went to school. Since starting last year he now wets during the day. My husband
Starting school can be an incredibly stressful time for young children; there are new routines that they need to become familiar with, ne…
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Hi Dr Cathrine
I have a daughter with autism and I’m having lots of trouble with her toilet training she get half way there and something makes her ungry or she has an accident and we go all the way back to the begining any ideas on how I can get her p
Toilet training can be particularly challenging for children with autism due to difficulties with communication, sensitivity to different…
