Home Hot Topics Articles Directors' Choice Awards About Us / Contact Us Activities & Curriculum Activities for Outcome-Based Learning Arts & Crafts Music for Learning Recommended Reading Sharing Boards: What Do YOU Think? NEWSlink Current National News Conference Calendar Topics In Early Childhood Education Art and Creativity in Early Childhood Education Job Sharing Board State Licensing Requirements Stay Connected! Each month we'll send you an email filled with articles and ideas for your classroom. Subscribe Now Date: 1/12/2006 3:19:00 PM Author: Soon to be Psychologist Subject: Past Experience (Its not their fault) Part III Finally, you have been waiting to hear the solutions. The main solution to the problem is the prescription medication DDAVP (It comes in pill form [usually one a day before bed]). However, there are many other things that must occur during the DDAVP regimen before the medicine will take permanent effect and cure the child. (1) Make sure that your child goes pee in the toilet right before going to bed. (An empty bladder will buy time) Also, get them into the habit of going potty when they first wake up. (2) Restrict nighttime beverages. VERY important, the medicine can take months to take full effect. Decide on a time, about 7 or 8 pm, to stop allowing your child to drink fluids. At bedtime, give them one sip of water to swallow the DDAVP pill (that's all). (3) Protect the bed. There will still be accidents when your child first starts taking DDAVP. Put a rubber sheet over the mattress to prevent the urine from soaking through. Also, if the child is small, the Good Nites underwear can be used during the first couple of months. (4) Avoid salty foods in the evening. Contrary to popular belief, salt does not keep water in. When more salt is introduced into the body, the body will absorb more water from the cells to flush the salt out of the body. (It will make them have to pee more). Also stay away from caffeine in the evening. (5) Try to wake them up before you go to bed yourself. Guide them gently to the bathroom, help them pull their pants down, sit (or stand) them at the toilet, and wait for them to pee. They may be totally zoned out; keep her legs together, or keep his penis aimed, otherwise you may need to stay up later than you wanted to. When they have peed, flush and wash their hands, then guide them back to bed. If they are young, you may need to wake them more than once each night. As the child is having less and less accidents, you can start to relax some of these standards listed above [not too quickly though, wait at least 5 months]. When they have had no accidents for about 7 weeks then you can talk to the pediatritian about stopping the medication. No matter what happens, be sure to show your unconditional love for your child at all times, it will help them get through the emotional torment of the problem. ---Good Luck--- ---THE END--- Name: Email: Subject

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