Say Goodbye to Wet Bed Sheets, Thanks to the Bedwetting Alarm

Nocturnal Enuresis may sound like a highly specific medical term that only a few people will be able to understand, but it is actually an illness that many people, especially parents, are familiar with. Commonly known as bedwetting, Nocturnal Enuresis is mostly suffered by children who inadvertently wet their bed at night, much to the annoyance of their parents. This is not an illness that is suffered by only a few children, because most children truly have difficulty in discerning the right time that they should go to the bathroom to urinate.

But since a famous adage asserts that necessity is the mother of invention, a device has been invented to end the head-scratching of problematic parents over this sickness suffered by their children, and this device is none other than the bedwetting alarm. A bedwetting alarm is a device that is designed not only to prevent children from wetting their beds, to cure their Nocturnal Enuresis once and for all. There are other medicines that can also help in keeping children from wetting their beds, but it has proven itself as one of the most efficient methods of curing the illness.

The Bedwetting alarm, as its name suggests, is designed to wake children up once they begin wetting their bed. There are several types of bedwetting alarms, but what is common to all of them is the presence of a sensor which is commonly attached to the child's underwear, pajamas, or diapers. And once the sensor gets wet, it will immediately activate the main device to which it is attached, thus causing an alarm or a vibration. Of course, the child wearing the device would then wake up and pass urinating on the bed, and will instead urinate in the toilet, thus proving the effectiveness of the bedwetting alarm.

There are three types of alarms, and the first one is the wearable alarm, which is characterized by a sensor that is placed on a child's underwear that is connected by a cord to the main device, which is attached to the child's night-clothes. This is the most common type of bedwetting alarm and its sensor is perhaps the strongest among all types of bedwetting alarms for it is directly placed inside the child's underwear.

The second type of itis highly similar to the wearable alarm, although it does have one notable feature that the former does not, and this is the fact that its sensor is wireless and is not connected to the main alarm. Another innovation of this second type of bedwetting alarm, called wireless alarms, is that some of them feature multiple wireless alarms that can alert both the child and even his or her parents who are in a different room once he wets the bed. And finally, the third type of it is the bell and pad alarm, and its distinction from the aforementioned types of bedwetting alarms is that its sensor is not placed on the child's underwear or pajamas, but on the bed sheet or the mat on which the child is lying.

As mentioned before, despite the presence of medicines that can cure Nocturnal Enuresis, bedwetting alarms are still one of the most effective ways of curing this illness, especially for children who are five years old and above. Two-thirds of children who have received treatment courtesy of the bedwetting alarm have seen a decline in the number of night wherein they wet their beds, while half of the children cease from wetting their bed altogether.

But even with the aid of these devices, parents can still help their children to overcome this illness, and this is by encouraging them that they will be able to triumph over their sickness and rewarding them when they successfully finish a night of sleep without wetting their bed.