Why It Happens:

Most bedwetters are quite typical and have very similar symptoms. We almost always find that someone in the not too distant family was either a bedwetter, sleep walker or had "night terrors" when they were younger, because these conditions are all related to the same sleep disorder.

When we sleep at night, it's normal to settle into a continuous four-stage sleep cycle which keeps us in a healthy balance during the night. Rather than cycle, almost all bedwetters rapidly fall into stage 4 of sleep and stay there for long periods, interrupting the healthy balance.

Stage 4 is the very deepest portion of sleep. It's when body functions slowdown and we receive a reduced volume of oxygen flowing through our system. During stage 4, as the bladder fills with urine, it tries to send a signal to the brain that it needs to empty. But, the brain never gets the message because of the deep sleep caused by oxygen deprivation. The bladder then empties involuntarily and a bedwetting episode occurs.

Therefore, it is critical to recondition (change) the sleep pattern back into a normal cycle and healthy balance in order for the brain and bladder to make a connection and for the bladder to respond normally.

How Do We Change The Sleep Pattern?

Many sufferers have tried a bedwetting alarm, and have had little or no success because the deep sleep allowed the bedwetter to sleep right through it.

Others found the alarm useful, but had no knowledge of what steps to take when it appeared the bedwetter was finally awake. Quite often, during the middle of the night, and after they've already wet, the bedwetter can be found sitting up in bed holding a conversation. But you're sure they're not fully awake and aren't really aware of what's happening around them. The proof that they were not completely awake is that they didn't remember the event the next morning.

It should be obvious then, that bedwetters can't change their own sleep pattern when they're in this very deep sleep. Alarms, used by themselves, won't change their sleep patterns either. Bedwetters need someone else to help them out of stage 4 of sleep. Mom, Dad, spouse, friend, nurse, etc. can become the helper along with guidance and instruction from Home Treatment Programs.

It's critical to interrupt the "deep sleep" while the bedwetter is in that state (stage 4). It is very important to fully wake the bedwetter, at this point, in order to change the sleep pattern. Home Treatment Programs teaches you all the various techniques and procedures to completely awaken the bedwetter from the deep sleep and to insure he is fully awake. It teaches you how to recondition (change) the sleep pattern back to a normal cycle, and healthy balance, in order for the brain and bladder to make the necessary connection.

When the sleep pattern is successfully changed, and the balance restored, the bedwetting will end.