Posted by activest on May 29, 2001 at 07:37
There are a lot of reasons why you might still wet the bed. And it's really important to understand that it is NOT YOUR FAULT!
Enuresis runs in families. That means that chances are your mom or dad wet the bed too when they were kids. If both of your parents have a history of bed-wetting, then you have a 70% chance of wetting the bed. If only one of your parents had a bed-wetting history, then you have a 40% chance of wetting the bed. If neither of your parents have a bedwetting history, then you still have a 15 % chance of wetting the bed.
most adults are very heavy sleepers and don't wake up when they have to go to the bathroom. Some have smaller bladders so they cant' hold as much urine as is made during the night.
There is this hormone produced in everyone's body called Desmopressin. This hormone tells your kidneys to stop producing urine. When the right amount of this hormone is produced at night, it slows urine production. But some adults don't produce enough of this hormone so they make a lot of urine at night and then they wet the bed.
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