When Your Child Wets the Bed

Bedwetting is common in children under age 5. The American Academy of Family Physicians says as many as 7 million children wet the bed (From Yahoo News). The academy offers these common causes of bedwetting: Genetics. Bedwetting tends to run in families. Difficulty waking up. Delayed development of the central nervous system. Hormonal imbalance. Urinary tract infection. Abnormalities in the urethral valve or ureter. Small bladder, leading to an inability to hold urine for long periods.