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Article: Stopping Bedwetting.
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- Pediatrics for Parents
- Article date:
- November 1, 1998
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There are many different ways to treat nocturnal enuresis (night time bedwetting.) If behavioral approaches don't work, the child has no anatomic problems, and the parent or child don't want to wait until the child outgrows it, then medications may help.
The most successive drug in treating nocturnal enuresis is desmopressin acetate, sold as DDAVP. It's a synthetic form of vasopressin, a hormone that helps to control the body's water balance and urine production. Increased vasopressin levels mean decreased urine production.
There are a couple of problems with DDAVP. It is a nasal spray. It ...