Other names: enuresis, bedwetting at night, nocturnal enuresis, bedwetting daytime enuresis diurna

Enuresis, enuresis is involuntary urination that occurs after the fourth to fifth year of age.Nocturnal enuresis is the most common and is called nocturnal enuresis.

The reasons can be many, may be a congenital defects of the bladder, the bladder disturbed harmony with the nervous system (the child does not wake the need to urinate), low secretion of antidiuretic hormone at night, often a family history of enuresis.

The problem may also begin in the context of stress or physical trauma. Enuresis for the child and his family problem, a child with a problem ashamed, can make you feel inferior and have subsequent mental problems, problems with integration into the collective so. Therefore, for such a child important to support parents in time to confer with the problem pediatrician. The disorder is treatable, such as administering drugs with similar effect as that of the antidiuretic hormone (reduced urine output) per night.

Involuntary leakage of urine often arise in adulthood, then we talk about urinary incontinence.

Incontinence can have many causes. Stress incontinence is when the leakage of urine occurs when increased intra-abdominal pressure, such as coughing, laughing, running. This type of incontinence is caused by a failure of the pelvic floor muscles and often troubled women who give birth. It can be solved by surgery.

Another type of incontinence is urge incontinence, in this case, a victim has a problem with the fact that the need to urinate occurs suddenly and is troublesome, ill and might not occur in time to catch the toilet. This problem can be treated with some pharmaceuticals.

Incontinence may also be reflective when broken nerve connection with the bladder, such as spinal cord trauma, and the bladder emptied so reflexively without voluntary control.

Each type of incontinence can somehow solve this problem, many people suffer and not be embarrassed to confide in your doctor.