Link Between Bedwetting And Hyperactive Behavior!

ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) is a condition associated with children.

Children facing with this problem are hyperactive or impulsive.

If children with bedwetting show tantrums, learning disability and socialization problems, you should suspect that as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

The incidence of bedwetting is higher in children who are diagnosed with ADHD.

For children and their parents, bedwetting can be traumatic condition and interfere with the ability of children to make friends.

The occurrence of bedwetting in children with ADHD is two to three times higher than children without ADHD. A child with ADHD is less able to wake up when the urinary bladder is full and it can lead to primary bedwetting.

In children who suffer from bedwetting, the incidence decreased dramatically by the time they are six to seven years old, but they still suffer from hyperactivity, impulsivity and problems with organization skills even they reach adulthood.

Children who suffer from ADHD and bedwetting have more difficulty in adjusting and coping with both problems than children who suffer from bedwetting.

Symptoms mostly appear in situations like school, social situations, and home, but to varying degrees. In some children, the problem occurs at only one place.

A child who experiences bedwetting and not ADHD often responds to behavioral treatments and is not treated badly. But, children with ADHD are different from others and have impulsive behavior. This behavior makes him rejected by others.

A child may feel shame when suffering from bedwetting and this increase when he is suffering with ADHD. Coping with one problem is difficult for a child and multiple problems can affect the life of child.

A child with bedwetting and ADHD should be taken to the doctor for a physical exam. Behavioral therapies can work for both the problems, but avoid negative consequences.

Children with bedwetting and ADHD suffer more teasing from their friends that they can’t tolerate anymore negative consequences from the doctor and loved ones.

How to control both the problems?

The treatment should not include scolding, punishment and embarrassing the children. These things make further loss of self esteem in children.

Both the problems can be treated with behavioral techniques and medications. But, it is necessary to identify which disorder is causing the other disorder and need to be addressed first.

Doctors prescribe tricyclic antidepressants for both conditions. Imipramin and tofranil are the antidepressants. Desmopressin acetate has been shown to improve bedwetting problem in children.

For bedwetting, bedwetting alarms are helpful to wake the child from sleep to use the toilet and are relatively safe without requirement of medications and doctor visits. Many parents are willing to prefer natural remedies.

Biofeedback therapy is one of the techniques that are used to treat both the conditions.

It is a behavioral technique which teaches the child to control the muscles that are involved in urination by responding to physiological cues. This technique also works in children with ADHD, who have problem of bedwetting.