You’ve Googled Bedwetting and ADHD and found yourself here, and that’s for good reason. We’ve discovered a relationship between the two over the course of 50 years solely treating bedwetting, and now we’re sharing our discovery with you.
The ADHD-Bedwetting Link
Many of our bedwetting patients have been diagnosed with ADHD, even from an early age. Most are on medication. And then there are others who were displaying ADHD symptoms and completed formal testing, but the results were “borderline” or “inconclusive.” That doesn’t mean the symptoms aren’t real, which can include irritability, distractibility, hyperactivity, impulsivity, excessive talking, procrastination–and the list goes on.
What’s Behind This Link?
Unusual and unhealthy deep sleep. For every bedwetter, there is a single, underlying causal factor: An inherited gene that creates an incredibly deep sleep. This sleep is so deep that a smoke alarm may not even awaken them. This kind of non-arousable sleep is also usually the culprit for the ADHD-like symptoms our patients exhibit during the day. That’s because the brain and nervous system aren’t getting what they need through proper sleep cycling.
Changing Lives by Getting to the Source
Over the years, we would consistently see remarkable changes in our patients’ behavior, mood, energy, and focus that came about as a direct result of changing their sleep pattern. So while parents call on us to end their child’s bedwetting, we also know that their child will experience incredible changes to their overall health and well-being–including diminishment or complete abatement of their child’s ADHD symptoms. We became confident that a diagnosis of ADHD is often a misdiagnosis for bedwetters, given the nature of their poor quality sleep.
The Light at the End of the Tunnel
Here’s an important fact to digest: If your child is wetting the bed, they are not getting good sleep. They may sleep for 10 hours, for example, yet awaken in the morning feeling as though they’ve only experienced six or seven. While there is a chance that your child’s ADHD diagnosis is legitimate, 9 times out of 10 we see that the symptoms were solely sourced by the poor quality sleep due to little or no sleep cycling. So when we change your child’s sleep pattern, you’ll find that not only does the bedwetting come to a permanent end, your child’s ADHD symptoms will either disappear entirely, or they will diminish in their intensity.
It’s a remarkable correlation and an incredible outcome that we discovered because we’ve been in a position to see this outcome on repeat for five decades. Thankfully many physicians and psychologists refer their patients to us for this reason. It’s our mission to end the struggles with daytime functioning and nighttime bedwetting in the life of every child, teen, and adult that we treat.
