<<I would like to bring up how food allergies contribute to bed wetting.
My children only wet the bed after eating the foods they were allergic
to. My daughter still gets bladder cramps from oranges and she is a
young adult. She used to leak urine a lot until we removed oranges/juice
etc. from her diet. I also think dairy products cause bladder issues,
too.>>

This is so very true for my older daughter who is 6.  When she was 3-4 or so
she went through a bedwetting phase as she started to sleep more deeply.
But I was interested in how often it happened after we were eating at my
in-laws' home.  I wrote down a food diary and lo and behold, she had dairy
products VERY often at their house (which was mainly weekend visits) and
very infrequently at ours.  One day she had youghurt, cheese and ice cream
in the same evening and wet the bed twice that night, both times in the
early hours of the night (say 11 pm and 1:30 am).  She seems less affected
by dairy now, and more likely to wet just b/c of probably a "bladder growth
spurt" (or neurological pathway to the bladder change I presume) but for a
good year or so it was quite evident.  Despite my food diary no one in the
family believed me though.

I was interested too in the comment about proper palate spread/nasal
breathing that someone made.  Anecdotally, this is not true for my
children:  daughter#1 wets more at 6 than daughter #2 who is 3.5 and only
toilet learned within the last 10 mos. and yet daughter #2 sucks her thumb
and has a high narrow palate (which is partly genetic I am SURE since her
paternal grandfather and aunt both have similar jaws even as adults).
Daughter #1 sucked her fingers (which didn't seem to give her a high narrow
palate in any case) and she stopped that early on (age 3) while continueing
to breastfeed to age 6.

Fio

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