Fed: New hope for bedwetters
A simple nose spray is giving hope to thousands of children who wet their beds wellinto their teenage years.
Paediatrician ANNIE MOULDEN of the Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne says the nosespray can stop a child bedwetting the first night of treatment.
She says she wants to destroy the myth that bedwetting is a psychological problem.
On average, five or more children in a prep class will wet the bed, while there willstill be one bedwetter in every two Year 10 classes.
Most bedwetters do not produce enough of a chemical that slows down urine productionat night and the children do not wake up to go to the toilet.
Dr MOULDEN says using the nasal spray called DESMOPRESSIN before bed reduces the productionof urine at night.
She says while the treatment has been around for about five years, it's still not beingused enough, and children are suffering unnecessarily.
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KEYWORD: BEDWETTING (MELBOURNE)
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