Home remedies · Children & infants
No home remedy here replaces treatment, and none is talked down. What has done good for generations does good — even if no one ever measured it. Where something is well studied, it says so. Where it is only experience, it says that too.
Do not scold and do not wake the child. Let them drink normally in the evening but move the last big drink earlier. Two trips to the toilet before bed. A mattress protector takes the pressure off.
Bedwetting is a question of maturing, not of upbringing. Each year about 15 in 100 affected children stop on their own.
Sharply restricting evening drinks does not help and causes thirst. And scolding prolongs matters by adding shame.
See a doctor if a child starts wetting again after a dry spell, if it also happens by day, with pain on passing urine or strong thirst.
At once: any fever in an infant under three months, a child who is apathetic or has stopped drinking, skin bleeding that does not fade under pressure, breathlessness or drawn-in ribs. A first seizure is always looked at. Refusing to drink for hours counts for more than the temperature.