What should I do if I dream about wetting the bed at night?

In life, bedwetting is generally a common disease among children, but some adults also experience bedwetting, especially when they are dreaming at night. The specific symptoms of bedwetting in adults are involuntary urination during sleep, which is more likely to occur when they are tired during the day or in rainy weather, and when they are older and have shyness or mental tension. Generally, adults who wet the bed must go to the hospital for examination and treatment in time, otherwise it will cause great harm to our body.

What causes bedwetting in adults? What's going on?

One of the causes of bed-wetting in adults is that the child wet the bed when he was young, but the bed-wetting has not been treated or has not received correct treatment until now.

The second cause of bedwetting in adults is that they often dream. They find the toilet in the dream and wake up after urinating. The reason is that the urination conditioned reflex regulation function of the urinary center in the brain is stimulated and imperfect, and the sensitivity of the brain in regulating the urinary urge is unstable. It shows that the human body can sometimes control urination at night, and sometimes cannot. Waking up after urinating is because the skin in the lower body is stimulated by the wet urine.

The third cause of bedwetting in adults is that the pace of life in modern society has accelerated, and the pressure of work and study has increased significantly, causing excessive mental or physical labor, resulting in physical and mental fatigue, deep sleep or sleep disorders, and decreased overall resistance.

The fourth cause of bedwetting in adults is urinary tract infection, urinary tract obstructive diseases (congenital urethral malformations, acquired prostatic hypertrophy, etc.), relaxation of urethral sphincter in postpartum women or middle-aged and elderly women, etc.

The fifth cause of bedwetting in adults: Medical research shows that bedwetting in adults not only affects the patient's sleep life, but more importantly, it makes them feel ashamed and damages their personality image. After wetting the bed, people often do not get understanding and sympathy from people around them, and they feel very painful and guilty inside, which greatly affects the physical and mental health of the human body. It is a hidden killer! In order to improve the quality of life of people today, relieve the pain and self-pity caused by bedwetting, and regain self-confidence and health. Pediatricians recommend prompt treatment for adults with bedwetting.

Treatment for bedwetting

1. The preferred treatment for enuresis is non-drug treatment, including psychological counseling and habit cultivation. Parents must not yell at their children or show impatience because of their frequent bedwetting. This will only increase the psychological burden on the children and may even cause them to develop an inferiority complex. Parents should relieve their children's psychological stress, give more encouragement, and create a relaxed environment for their children. When a child wets the bed, it is best for parents to just laugh it off and take it easy. As mentioned above, most pediatric enuresis is functional and temporary. If all the tests are normal, parents do not need to worry.

2. Habit cultivation can start with limiting the amount of water children drink at night, drinking less water or even no water before going to bed, and parents can wake up their children to urinate every 2 hours at night, such as 10 pm, 12 pm, 2 am, etc. This can build up children's self-confidence and train bladder function, so that they can gradually urinate on their own.

3. Drug treatment can be selected under the guidance of a doctor to relieve frequent urination and increase bladder capacity, but recurrence is likely after discontinuation of the medication. Generally speaking, the spontaneous recovery rate of enuresis is very high. Non-drug treatment is the mainstay of treatment, with drug-assisted treatment being considered as a last resort.

External Treatment of Enuresis in Children with Traditional Chinese Medicine

Umbilical compress method. Apply medication to the navel. The navel is the Shenque point, which connects the qi of the internal organs to the root of the vital energy below, and has the function of nourishing the essence, strengthening the foundation and warming the yang. The navel is the last closure of the abdominal wall during embryonic development. There is no subcutaneous fat in the area, the epidermal stratum corneum is the thinnest, and the barrier function is the weakest, so drugs can easily penetrate and diffuse through it. In addition, there is a rich vascular network on both sides of the navel, which has a high absorption and sensitivity to drugs.

Massage. Massage specific areas of a child's back to regulate the body's qi, blood, yin and yang. Enuresis in children is closely related to the lungs, spleen, and kidneys. The two sides of the spine are where the Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian runs, and are the locations of the lung, spleen, kidney and other acupoints. By stimulating these meridians and acupoints through massage, it is possible to adjust yin and yang, dredge the meridians, and unclog the blood vessels.

Umbilical compress and massage therapy are gentle and painless, easily accepted by children and their families, and conducive to continued treatment.