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Bedwetting is a treatable, deep-sleep disorder. It requires addressing its complex nature with curated and refined protocols aimed at correcting the disorder and ending bedwetting for good. Yet most people go online and discover the volumes of alarm devices being marketed to end bedwetting, and these same people call on us after trying two or three different versions. And that’s because alarms cannot awaken a bedwetter out of their abnormally deep sleep.
Parents find themselves being awakened in the night by the alarm signal, and then attempting to awaken their child and walk them to the bathroom. We call that the “Zombie Walk.” Your child isn’t awake, and there’s been no correction of the sleep pattern. Without that, the cycle and the frustration continue.
Bedwetting is not just a childhood phase; it’s a sign of a serious, underlying sleep disorder. It needs proper attention in order to ensure a permanent change: A dry bed every morning, and restful, restorative sleep for the first time and for a lifetime.
Alarms Don’t Address the Underlying Deep-Sleep Disorder Causing Bedwetting
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We want to correct the abnormal, extended deep sleep that’s causing bedwetting.
Sleep is a natural state of rest for the mind and body. A third of your life is spent sleeping. In fact, sleep is not a passive state. A lot goes on in your body during sleep, and your brain organizes and solidifies learning and memory which improves your concentration and promotes innovative and flexible thinking. Sleep strengthens your immune system and enables repair of your nervous system. A good night’s sleep relieves stress by quieting your nervous system and establishing a sense of well being. With bedwetting (or nocturnal enuresis), a person may sleep for 10 hours, yet only have the experience of seven or eight hours. That equates to a sleep deficit. which means bedwetters are not always receiving the necessities of sleep expressed above.
Sleep begins in stages 1 and 2, (theta sleep) and then progresses to 3 and 4, (delta). After stage 4 sleep is complete, stage 3 and then stage 2 are repeated before entering REM (rapid eye movement) sleep, which is where we dream. Once REM sleep is over, the body usually returns to stage 2. We then cycle through these stages approximately four or five times throughout the night. During the last one or two cycles, there is no delta sleep at all.
On average, we enter the REM stage approximately 90 minutes after falling asleep. The first cycle of REM sleep might last only a short amount of time, but each cycle becomes longer. REM sleep can last up to an hour as sleep progresses. Good quality sleep requires both non-REM and REM sleep in uninterrupted cycles.
In most studies, sleep electroencephalograms have demonstrated no differences or only nonspecific changes in children with and without nocturnal enuresis. When surveyed, however, parents consistently maintain that their child with bedwetting is a “heavy and deep sleeper.” Other surveys have found that children with bedwetting are more subject to “confused awakenings,” such as night terrors or sleepwalking than children who do not wet the bed. Source: American Family Physicians – 2003.
Bedwetters remain primarily in the Stage 4 sleep, and they’re not continuously cycling, and, therefore, limiting or bypassing REM (dream sleep.) This compromises restorative and restful sleep, and why we often see bedwetters with mood irregularities, ADHD symptoms, difficulty awakening in the morning, and struggles with focus. This excessively long and deep Stage 4 sleep also severs the connection between the brain and the bladder, and THIS results in bedwetting.
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