No More Bedwetting

In this reassuring, eye-opening book, noted urologist Samuel J. Arnold explains how almost all childhood bedwetting can be cured or controlled. Drawing on over 35 years of experience—and thousands of actual cases—Dr. Arnold illustrates how, contrary to conventional thinking, most bedwetting is caused by underlying physical conditions—conditions that often can be corrected quickly and effectively. And he dispels the harmful and mistaken notion that long-term bedwetting is caused by disobedience, toilet-training conflicts, or parental attitudes.

This essential and supportive guide can help you help your child. No More Bedwetting reveals:
* The many different factors behind bedwetting
* How to determine the root cause of your child's problem and what to do about it
* The roles of heavy sleep, diseases, anatomical problems, allergies, hormones, and other factors
* The damage of harmful treatments such as punishment or withholding fluids
* A full range of tested strategies and recommendations

"...an essential guide for the parents of a bedwetting child...teaches how to determine the root cause of the problem; the roles sleep, allergies, diseases, & hormones play; & which treatments to avoid."

In this reassuring, eye-opening book, noted urologist Samuel J. Arnold explains how almost all childhood bedwetting can be cured or controlled. Drawing on over 35 years of experience—and thousands of actual cases—Dr. Arnold illustrates how, contrary to conventional thinking, most bedwetting is caused by underlying physical conditions—conditions that often can be corrected quickly and effectively. And he dispels the harmful and mistaken notion that long-term bedwetting is caused by disobedience, toilet-training conflicts, or parental attitudes.

This essential and supportive guide can help you help your child. No More Bedwetting reveals:

• The many different factors behind bedwetting
• How to determine the root cause of your child's problem and what to do about it
• The roles of heavy sleep, diseases, anatomical problems, allergies, hormones, and other factors
• The damage of harmful treatments such as punishment or withholding fluids
• A full range of tested strategies and recommendations

Children's Literature

This author, a urologist with emeritus status at Morristown Memorial Hospital in New Jersey, is not offering easy solutions to this difficult problem for parents, but rather offering an abundance of information. Parents and childcare workers will discover in this volume a number of ways to narrow the problem of bedwetting down to its logical conclusion. The author gives biological information as well as psychological information. Related issues such as food allergies, sleep disorders and kidney diseases are discussed, so that the parent is able to rule out certain possible causes. Chapter one helps the parent to get an overall view of this problem, including whether it is hereditary, does it need a physical examination, and at what age can you expect an infant to stop wetting the bed. An excellent resource is to be found in the bibliography and appendices.

SAMUEL J. ARNOLD, M.D., F.A.C.S., is a urologist with emeritus status at Morristown Memorial Hospital in New Jersey and was Assistant Clinical Professor of Urology at Rutgers University Medical School. He has published many professional articles and has appeared on national television shows as an expert on treatments for bedwetting.