The Basic Kinds of Adult Nocturnal Enuresis

By Patricia Miller


Surprisingly a good number of otherwise healthy young adults suffer from adult nocturnal enuresis. Healthy adults who suffer from night time bed wetting are often too ashamed to tell their doctor about this problem. Unfortunately, these people could most likely be helped if they spoke to a qualified doctor. When we think of people who wet the bed we usually think about small children learning to use the bathroom or very elderly people who are unable to control their bladders.

This medical condition also affects healthy and strong younger adults and even teenagers who have no other health concerns. Incontinence during the day can be an issue with many people elderly people, adult nocturnal enuresis seems to affect people from all walks of life and cultural groups. It is not only elderly adults who suffer from uncontrollable bed urination.

There are two main kinds of nocturnal enuresis - primary nocturnal enuresis and secondary nocturnal enuresis and the symptoms and treatments are different for each kind. Not all men and women have the same types of bed wetting symptoms. Some men and women have grown up wetting the bed all their lives, while some people later develop a bed wetting problem after spending decades with no problems at all. This wetting of the bed randomly can be frightening at first. There are man different treatments available for mature people who wet the bed at night.

Often men and women who suffer from primary nocturnal enuresis are genetically disposed to bed wetting. Genetics can play a big role in an adult's issues with nocturnal enuresis. Bed wetters throughout the decades of their lives are could also 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 suffer from primary nocturnal enuresis.

The other type of bed wetting is called secondary nocturnal enuresis and it is the term used to describe adults who being wetting the bed later in life. Unexpected occurrences of bed wetting are usually attributed to secondary nocturnal enuresis, which is also referred to as adult onset bed wetting. This type of enuresis can sometimes be caused by stress, excessive alcohol consumption before bed or a physical injury that occurred later in life.

Approximately four million men and women suffer from some sort of bed wetting issue. Bed wetting can usually be the symptom of a more dangerous physical or psychological condition. Though it's an embarrassing problem for millions of men and women, 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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