Step-by-step guidance for parents and carers on helping children and adolescents achieve dryness Wetting is a distressing problem that is common in children and can also affect adolescents. This clearly written book shows parents and carers how to assess and treat wetting problems effectively. Whether the problem is daytime wetting, bedwetting, or wetting with soiling, the chapters provide step-by-step instructions and concrete ideas to help children and adolescents achieve dryness. All recommendations are based on the latest scientific studies and guidelines such as those of the International Children's Continence Society (ICCS). Useful charts and questionnaires help identify the exact problem, track progress on a daily basis, and increase motivation. This practical guide is ideal for parents as well as for teachers, educators, and caregivers.

Pediatric incontinence: evaluation and clinical management offers urologists practical, 'how-to' clinical guidance to what is a very common problem affecting up to 15% of children aged 6 years old. Introductory chapters cover the neurophysiology, psychological and genetic aspects, as well as the urodynamics of incontinence, before it moves on to its core focus, namely the evaluation and management of the problem. All types of management methods will be covered, including behavioural, psychological, medical and surgical, thus providing the reader with a solution to every patient's specific problem. The outstanding editor team led by Professor Israel Franco, one of the world’s leading gurus of pediatric urology, have recruited a truly stellar team of contributors each of whom have provided first-rate, high-quality contributions on their specific areas of expertise. Clear management algorithms for each form of treatment support the text, topics of controversy are covered openly, and the latest guidelines from the ICCS, AUA and EAU are included throughout. Perfect to refer to prior to seeing patients on the wards and in the clinics, this is the ideal guide to the topic and an essential purchase for all urologists, pediatric urologists and paediatricians managing children suffering from incontinence.

Step-by-step guidance for parents and carers on helping children and adolescents achieve dryness Wetting is a distressing problem that is common in children and can also affect adolescents. This clearly written book shows parents and carers how to assess and treat wetting problems effectively. Whether the problem is daytime wetting, bedwetting, or wetting with soiling, the chapters provide step-by-step instructions and concrete ideas to help children and adolescents achieve dryness. All recommendations are based on the latest scientific studies and guidelines such as those of the International Children's Continence Society (ICCS). Useful charts and questionnaires help identify the exact problem, track progress on a daily basis, and increase motivation. This practical guide is ideal for parents as well as for teachers, educators, and caregivers.

A comprehensive review of enuresis, such as this, has long been overdue. In this book attention is given to bladder control, reflecting current interest in developmental aspects of paediatrics, and to enuresis, reflecting the need to relieve a common cause of unhappiness. The topics discussed include how most children become dry by age four or five, and why a minority do not; why these children go on wetting their beds, and why some start doing so after a period of dryness. The prevalence of bedwetting in younger children varies curiously in different countries. Treatment, by explanation, by drugs and by the buzzer, is well covered in practical detail. Previously published articles are reviewed. In too many it has been difficult to determine whether authors are consistently writing about day-time or night-time, life-long or acquired, wetting. Emphasis is given to papers in which soundly based research is clearly reported. Though this book was inspired by and derives from a recent International Colloquium at Newcastle, it is anything but a report of that Colloquium. To extend coverage and avoid repetition, a number of chapters have been specially written, and papers have been re-written, fused or omitted; several up-to-date, comprehensive and authoritative reviews have been included. Whether readers are community, hospital or family doctors, or psychologists, they can enjoy criticising and evaluating the at times differing views put forward, and can synthesise their own new and better conclusions. The editors have aimed to clear the way for further research by identifying clearly what is known and posing questions. Equally, however, it is hoped that this volume will promote a deeper and better understanding of bladder control and enuresis, and enable doctors who use it for reference to give more effective help to children with wetting problems.

When bed-wetting becomes a problem in your home, what do you do? Often times when a child is wetting his or her bed, the reason is due either to an undiagnosed medical condition or due to psychological effects. As a parent, you will want to find out what is happening with your child so that you can stop bedwetting. Unfortunately, there are things that prevent many parents from trying to determine what causes their child

Soiling is a distressing and often stigmatizing problem that is common in children and can also affect adolescents. This clearly written book shows parents and carers how to assess and treat soiling problems effectively. Whether the problem is soiling with or without constipation, toilet refusal, or soiling with wetting, the chapters provide step-by-step instructions and concrete ideas to help children and adolescents achieve continence. All recommendations are based on the latest scientific studies and guidelines such as those of the International Children's Continence Society (ICCS). Useful charts and questionnaires help identify the exact problem, track progress on a daily basis, and increase motivation. This practical guide is ideal for parents as well as for teachers, educators, and caregivers.

Proven, practical advice for treating and preventing potty problems.