How to treat the girl's enuresis?

Under enuresis is understood in medicine urinary incontinence. Most often, this diagnosis characterizes the lack of a child's ability to independently control the emptying of his bladder. As practice shows, in boys this kind of ailment occurs several times more often. However, in this article we will talk about a problem such as enuresis in a girl.

Main reasons

First of all it should be noted that effective treatment can be achieved only if the cause of the disease is correctly established. Enuresis in a girl can arise due to certain factors. We will name them.

• Immaturity of the central nervous system and, accordingly, the bladder. In this case, the brain simply does not receive a signal that it's time to go to the toilet.
• Various forms of psychoneurological disorders.
• Stresses (conflicts with parents, school change, lack of understanding by peers, relocation and other such reasons).
• Heredity.
• Hormonal problems.
• Diseases of the genitourinary system, including the presence of infection in the body.

Primary symptoms

According to experts, can be diagnosed as daytime enuresis in girls, and at night. The latter option is much more common. In this case, during sleep, a child over the age of five does not control the urge to urinate. As a rule, there is no need to talk about the disease until this age, since the formation of complete control just ends by five years.

Treatment of enuresis in girls

• First of all, it should be noted that not only specialists directly participate in the treatment, but also the parents themselves. The child needs to be aware that there is an understanding of the problem from the parents, to feel their affection and kindness. Roughness and the use of punishments can only aggravate the state of affairs.
• With regard to the issue of drug therapy, it is decided solely by a doctor. Depending on the cause that caused enuresis in the girl, a decision is made about the use of certain drugs. Typically, the course of therapy lasts from one to three months, but after it ends the illness is often returned. That's why specialists often prescribe complex treatment, which implies also the use of phytotherapy, psychotherapy and reflexotherapy.

Useful recommendations

In some cases, in order to cope with a problem such as a girl's enuresis, she will need qualified help from a psychologist. In no case should not this be embarrassed, and also tune the child against a visit to this specialist, because the causes of the ailment sometimes lie precisely in the psychological state of the child. You must necessarily explain the need for the first consultation and subsequent visits to the psychologist. As a rule, only with the active support of the parents themselves, and it is possible to get rid of such an unpleasant diagnosis and symptoms and not to remember them more in life.