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No connection between bedwetting and apnea

Written by: David Castillo on April 14th, 2011

No connection between bedwetting and apnea | read this item

A recent study shows that five percent of all kids wet their bed during sleep. However, the study also says that boys are a hundred percent more likely to wet their beds as compared to girls. Studying more than 6,000 kids, scientists discovered that almost seven percent of the boys and then three percent of the girls do it at least once each month.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Children’s Hospital pediatric urologist Dr. Joseph Barone explains that bedwetting is a hereditary trait in almost forty percent of all known cases. Barone adds, despite not being part of the study, that the cause may be an undeveloped link between the brain and the bladder.

The good news is that most kids outgrow bedwetting once they reach the age of 15. Girls, on the other hand, mature faster and thus outgrow the disorder much earlier than boys can. However, the researchers found that sleep apnea was in no way connected to bedwetting.