Bed Wetting

[skipper30]

Did any of your children have problems with bedwetting...long after being potty trained??

[elonwy]

I don't have kids, but I wet the bed until I was nine, and they could never figure out why, said it was "physchological". Fffffft.

Elonwy

[manja]

Did any of your children have problems with bedwetting...long after being potty trained??

Yes, my daughter Anna got diagnosed with gluten sensitivity on Monday.

I am sensitive to gluten too.

She is 2 and a half years old and was fully potty trained at 25 months.

Anna is wetting her bed for about 10 days now. She does not have a UTI.

We got it checked twice within the last 10 days.

They also did a negative test for diabetes.

My doctor thinks it is behavioral. I disagree.

She is off gluten since Monday, on Tuesday and Wednesday she did not pee in her bed during nap time. She also has not had an accident at the playground. She still wetts at night though.

[skipper30]

Here is my thinking on this...He is 6...has been potty trained since he was 4. Hardly any accidents after that time. Now all of the sudden he had started wetting the bed at night-easily 5 out of the last 7. He isnot our dx'd kid but we have been thinking of things that have happened in past and wondered if it might be in fact celiac. As a toddler, he would get so constipated that he would also throw-up when he had a bm. Then about 2 years ago he started up with these tics. They come and go. They have returned with a vengance and he complains off and on of his tummy hurting, he has lots of anxiety also....We talked at length with him tonight and he agreed to go gluten-free like younger brother for a while and see if things don't get better.

Then boy #3 has broken out with what I THINK is a very similar "rash"(lost's of little bumps) all over the right side of his tummy -that look a lot like what out dx'ed son get when he has been glutened.

I guess what I am wanting to know is do I sound like a fruit loop and wigging out over nothing?? I don't want to assume that they all have celiac everytime something new or odd comes up.

[2kids4me]

yes! my son was 10 when he was diagnosed with celiac, he had been a chronic bedwetter and the family doc said "oh he'll grow out of it, its common in boys".

Well lo and behold, within 2 months of the diagnosis and eating gluten-free, he was dry every night!! We were all thrilled as there is nothing worse than waking up cold and wet - esp when you are 10.

I then had the opportunity to discuss it with a camp co-ordinator (for a celiac camp) - she said - that it is because of the damaged gut, and the loose molecules (amine and sulfer) that get into the blood stream relaxes the bladder.

Bedwetting has been linked to food allergies too.

The site I will include is one about autism and the high number of autistic children with gluten/casein intolerance (or celiac) and how low enzyme levels can cause behavioral problems. It is of interest because with my son - gluten-free diet stopped the bedwetting and the gluten-free diet dramatically improved my daughter's school performance and social behavior. The information from articles on celiac and autism helped me understand why this occurred.

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[skipper30]

Thanks..I will check that site out!!

I REALLY think that there is a connection here!

[schuyler]

That's really interesting; I never thought about there being a connection between celiac and bedwetting. I am going to pass this info along to my cousin because her 2 oldest sons (ages 4 and 3) have been potty trained during the day since they were 18 months old, but they have to wear diapers to bed because they have so many accidents. This is something else to add to the boys' long list of symptoms.

[prinsessa]

I dont' know about bed wetting, but when I eat something with gluten I have to pee almost every hour. I don't know why. It might be my body trying to rid itself of toxins. I could see kids having the same problem. I had to get up sometimes in the middle of the night to use the bathroom.

[RIMom]

we are going to do the enterolab genetic test on our negative blood test daughter for that exact reason. We just want to know. We are going to do it privately (I know it's expensive), so it won't go on her insurance record, or medical record. They give discounts for family members. That way we will know if her weird things are just weird things, or if it's actually possibly the celiac raising its head finally.

Good luck

[RIMom]

sometimes it's just bedwetting though. My 5 yr old daughter has been gluten free/symptom free for 9 months now and still wets the bed. We wake her between 10 and 11 when we go to bed and have her pee, it doesn't matter, she still wakes up wet. she is a deep sleeper. We are working on it, but she just may not be ready.

[Merika]

Ds will have pee accidents within hours of ingesting soy, which he is also allergic to. it's the first symptom of many including behavior after ingesting the stuff. he's been potty trained for 4 years now and it can still happen.

merika

[RIMom]

interesting, she eats very little soy and never has accidents during the day. She is wet every night and always has been. (2 dry nights in her life, not in same week).

[gfpaperdoll]

I think bed wetting is associated with dairy - take out the dairy & I think it will go away.

there has been papers published on this - or so it seems I remember from an old brain talk post, or it might have been just some moms that figured it out...

[goldyjlox]

My daughter is 3 1/2 and potty trained for about a year but she still wears a pull up to bed and the last couple of months she has been peeing in her pants ,all the time. She and her 12 month old brother have had bloodtests a week and a half ago so we are waitng for the resuls. She is the one that I a more concerned about.