Bedwetting in childhood is a common and distressing situation for both children and their parents. This condition is also known as nocturnal enuresis, which means urinating at night. If the child is quite young, a diagnostic evaluation is done, including visiting medical specialists when necessary. If there are physical problems or hereditary disorders of the urinary tract, these should be treated immediately. However, in most cases, a child who wets the bed has no physical problems, and parents are often told to wait it out.
While this approach is understandable, I think it doesn’t give us the complete picture. By using the invaluable information easily obtained by evaluating your child from a Chinese medicine or energy medicine perspective, we are able to find contributing factors that may not be obvious and treatment or approach measures that will help speed up the resolution of nocturnal enuresis.
In many cases, it is true that if you wait long enough, the child will “outgrow” the bedwetting. However, I have yet to find a child or parent who is willing to accept that approach without trying anything and everything to alleviate this nagging problem. In my experience, some of the most common precursors to bedwetting are a history of problems with the immune system, such as severe infections or severe allergies. These conditions require energy from your child’s kidney and bladder energy circuits, both when they are actively occurring and in some cases for years afterward.
Other situations that can take more energy from a child’s kidneys and bladder are fearful or traumatic events like being in a bicycle or car accident, a head injury, or even having elective surgery for things like ear tubes and removal of the tonsils. It is not that these events are causal in themselves, but rather it is the redistribution of energy required by the child’s system to deal with them now and then that can lead to kidney and bladder imbalance. power circuit
This is such a common situation in children that I have incorporated asking these specific questions with every new patient I see in my practice. In this way, we can get a more holistic picture of what happens with the child from the very beginning. The usefulness of this information and the fact that it can be correlated and returned to the child and family as part of a coherent energetic explanation for bed wetting makes it a key component of my strategy with children and parents.
The energy medicine way of looking at your child’s kidney and bladder energy assesses historical experiences that may be related to current symptoms and recognizes that the body as a system is called upon to make energy distribution decisions based on priority and the need to maintain vital. functions In addition, the ability to prevent or anticipate the possibility of new symptoms appearing in the future is something I want all parents to know is possible using this type of energy medicine approach.