Day 5 Bedwetting – the right treatment for the right patient (a focus on patient groups)

Day 5 Bedwetting – the right treatment for the right patient (a focus on patient groups)

5-minute watch: why do children wet the bed? See Prof Johan Vande Walle, from the University of Ghent, Belgium, talk with Prof Søren Rittig (Aarhus University, Denmark) about the main causes of bedwetting, and appropriate evaluation and treatment

Publication alert! It is hard to know which patient will respond to which treatments; in this study, early improvements and better adherence predict a better response to enuresis alarm therapy

5-minute watch: why do children wet the bed? See Prof Johan Vande Walle, from the University of Ghent, Belgium, talk with Prof Søren Rittig (Aarhus University, Denmark) about the main causes of bedwetting, and appropriate evaluation and treatment

Have a look at this useful information from Bladder and Bowel UK about desmopressin for bedwetting

Helpful information from Bladder and Bowel UK about using enuresis alarms for bedwetting

Tips from our colleagues at ERIC on using a bedwetting alarm

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The World Bedwetting Week Steering Committee brings together experts from across the globe to support this initiative and consists of representatives from the International Children’s Continence Society (ICCS), the European Society of Paediatric Urology (ESPU), the Asia Paciﬁc Association of Paediatric Urology (APAPU), the International Paediatric Nephrology Association (IPNA), the European Society of Paediatric Nephrology (ESPN), the Sociedad Iberoamericana de Urologia Paediatrica (SIUP), the North American Paediatric Urology Societies, ERIC (The Children’s Bowel & Bladder Charity) and Bladder & Bowel UK.