Most kids finish up potty training by about 3 years of age. Nighttime dryness may take much longer to achieve, but daytime accidents should be few and far between.
This week I saw a 6-year-old girl in the office who had been having daytime urine accidents on a regular basis for a couple of years. Her family had moved into a new house just before the accidents started and she had started attending a new preschool, too. Her parents assumed
Every fall I have several children between the ages of 5 and 8 years old who come in because they are peeing all the time. The parents report the child will feel like he has to go every 10 or 15 minutes all day long and often will only have a little bit of urine each time. The typical child will still be sleeping all night but will start going very frequently as soon as he wakens and not stop until bedtime. It can be very disruptive to the
Posted by: drmolly in bedwetting on
Mar 15, 2009
I get a lot of questions about bedwetting. I often suspect parents are going to bring it up when I walk into the room for a well visit for a really healthy 8-year-old boy and find both parents in the room. Dads worry about bedwetting (and so do moms), but apparently it is a large enough worry to take a half-day off of work to come and talk about it with me. To be fair, working parents often take time off to bring their child in for a checkup
