Doctors are trained to identify medical causes for a patient’s problem, and often a diagnostic investigation is in order. However, bedwetting, despite being linked to a bodily function, is NOT a medical disorder. It’s a sleep disorder that can be easily treated if physicians are willing to accept a shift in thinking that bedwetting requires medical tests or medications of any kind.
Over the course of our 50 years exclusively treating bedwetting, (nocturnal enuresis), we have come up against the medical community’s point of view that bedwetting isn’t a real problem. Their most common suggestion to parents? Wait for it to go away on its own. Their second suggestion is medication, and their third most popular recommendation is fluid restriction.
The medical community must own that they cannot address the source of bedwetting: An inherited, deep-sleep disorder. Their focus needs to shift from treating an apparent ailment of the physical body to recognizing that the sleep disorder–the causal factor–needs to be addressed. A bedwetter’s sleep pattern can be changed in order to end the bedwetting, all without invasive tests, without years of waiting, without harsh medications, and without false hope. The medical community must stop normalizing outgrowing bedwetting, and take stock of the serious physiological and psychological implications of this decades-old stance.
While many doctors who recognize this outmoded mindset refer their patients to us to help resolve their bedwetting issue, we recognize that “professional pride” often stands in the way of more doctors doing the same. Parents often ask us WHY their doctor didn’t know about us or WHY their doctor treated their child for this condition if they knew it wouldn’t work. The fact is, pediatricians are well-intentioned and well-educated professionals who want to do right by their patients, yet, we, too, have asked those same WHY questions for decades.
Even with proof from a groundbreaking study conducted by Dr. Roger Broughton, a neurologist and sleep researcher, who proved that bedwetting is caused by a deep-sleep disorder, doctors still believe that bedwetting can be addressed with a pharmaceutical remedy or the “wait-and-see” approach. For all the reasons mentioned above, these aren’t viable options.
Remarkably, bedwetting is the second most prevalent pediatric disorder affecting five to seven million American children at any given time, yet bedwetters of any age, race, ethnicity, or gender, don’t stand a chance when seeking a resolution within the medical community. By simply adjusting the current medical mindset and the ages-old, ineffective recommendations and suggestions, we can make a huge leap forward in ending the suffering that comes along with bedwetting, and change millions of lives for the better.
I was forced to create a solution for my daughter’s bedwetting, especially after the recommended surgery didn’t work. That was the last straw. I HAD to find a solution because NOBODY had answers, and I couldn’t allow my child to struggle any longer. Dr. Broughton’s proof was the missing link, and paved the way for a cure. When my daughter’s bedwetting ended, and her emotional, mental, and physical health changed as well, I founded Bedwetting Treatment Center to bring the cure for bedwetting to every family who needs it–in the face of pushback, criticism, and resistance from the medical community at large. My team and I have stood strong for five decades in order to end bedwetting-related suffering, and we stand at the ready to help your family see your way through to a brand new life without it.
