The Basic Kinds of Adult Bedwetting
When we think of people wetting the bed we usually think about small children learning to use the bathroom or very aged people who are unable to control their bladders. Surprisingly a good number of otherwise healthy middle-aged adults suffer from adult nocturnal enuresis. Healthy people who suffer from nocturnal enuresis are often too ashamed to inform their doctor about this problem. Sadly, these people could most likely be helped if they spoke to a medical professional.
This medical malady also affects healthy and strong younger adults and even teenagers who have no other health concerns. Daytime incontinence can be a problem with many people older people, adult bedwetting seems to affect people from all walks of life and cultural groups. It is not only sickly adults who suffer from uncontrollable bed wetting.
Not all men and women have the same types of bed wetting problems. Some men and women have grown up wetting the bed all their lives, while some people later begin to suffer from a bed wetting problem after spending decades with no problems at all. There are two main kinds of nocturnal enuresis – primary nocturnal enuresis and secondary nocturnal enuresis and the symptoms and treatments vary for each type. Each type of bedwetting has a chance of being able to be prevented with natural bedwetting remedies.
Adults who wet the bed throughout the decades of their lives are could have medical problems called by physical injuries that are causing their nocturnal enuresis. Adults who have wet the bed all their lives are said to be suffering from primary nocturnal enuresis. Often men and women who suffer from primary nocturnal enuresis are genetically disposed to bed wetting. Genes can play a big part in an adult’s issues with night time bed wetting.
Another type of bed wetting is known as secondary nocturnal enuresis and it is the phrase used to describe men and women who being having bed wetting issues later in life. Unexpected occurrences of bed wetting are usually attributed to secondary nocturnal enuresis, which is often referred to as adult onset enuresis. This type of bed wetting can sometimes be caused by anxiety, excessive alcohol consumption before sleep or a physical malady that developed later in life.
It’s estimated that four million adults suffer from some sort of nocturnal enuresis. Bed wetting can often be the sign of a more dangerous medical condition. Though it’s an embarrassing problem for millions of people, it’s important to remember that wetting the bed is a symptom of something and not an actual sickness unto itself.
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