Bed Wetting Statistics
Around 2 in 100 teenagers and young adults wet the bed.
Bed wetting statistics. Less than 50 of all bedwetting children have bedwetting alone without also experiencing daytime urinary leakage or constipation. By age 12 and older its down to about 2 which means almost 1 million tweens and teens still wet the bed some every night. The management of bedwetting in children and young people.
Bed-wetting can affect anyone but its twice as common in boys as in girls. Percentage of children who wet the bed at different ages. Bedwetting or enuresis is common knowing the figures are useful to parents who are concerned that their childs bedwetting.
These bedwetting statistics seem to remain accurate year after year. The Genetics of Bedwetting. Numerous researchers cite the difficulty in getting willing parents to volunteer information for accurate statistics.
Although worrisome bedwetting is a perfectly normal behavior for preschool-aged children who have just been potty trainedperhaps as often as a three or four times a week. October 2010 Final. Rarely bed-wetting is related to a defect in the childs neurological system or urinary system.
Teenagers and young adults who experience bedwetting are slightly more likely to have behavioural problems but this could be due to the bedwetting rather than being its cause. By age seven the percentage drops to about 7. If both parents were bedwetters.
At age 10 the number drops to 5 which is still a relatively large number of children. 15 of 5 year olds. Several factors have been associated with an increased risk of bed-wetting including.

