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Article: Child centred approach to bedwetting
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- Community Practitioner
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- May 1, 2003
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Bedwetting is one of the most common and chronic of childhood conditions affecting over half a million children between the ages of five and 16 in the UK. JUNE ROGERS, a paediatric continence advisor for Knowsley PCT, looks at the role nurse-led community enuresis services play in effectively diagnosing and treating the underlying causes of childhood bedwetting
Bedwetting or nocturnal enuresis is said to be the involuntary passage of urine, during sleep, in a child aged five years and above, in the absence of any congenital or acquired defects of the nervous or renal system.1 The perception, however, that bedwetting is a self-limiting problem that requires minimal intervention unfortunately ...