As
I am working with more and more kids in the field with a bedwetting problem, I
am finding how many reasons there are for bedwetting. Not all kids have the
same sugar metabolism problem I had. I will address as many suggestions as I
can think of. I will start off first with my story and then share new research
I've learned about over the years.
Picture
with me a 10 year old girl excited about her first sleepover slumber
party. Watch carefully as she forces herself to stay awake all night
because she is afraid of the "accident" that might happen if she
falls asleep.
Now
look at the excitement on her face at age 13, as she plans to attend Girl Scout
camp--5 whole nights away from home. But that excitement turns to
complete and total embarrassment as she is the only scout with a wet sleeping
bed hanging outside her tent.
Let's
follow her to age 16. She has worked all summer long, cleaning houses and
babysitting. She saved all her money that summer to enjoy her first
clothes shopping spree. But it never happened, because during
a late night babysitting job, she fell asleep on the couch and had the
feared accident and all that summer's savings went to professionally
clean the couch.
How
do you think a 21 year old would feel, still wetting the bed? I'll tell
you....hopeless. Wetting the bed is not a terminal illness but it was like a
black cloud always over my life and decisions. By age 21, I had been to
pediatrician, urologist and physiologist with NO HELP.
At
21 I was given a book entitled Mega- Vitamin Therapy. In it researchers
were looking at the effects of B Vitamin Deficiencies. Many of the
people that were involved in the research project were adult bed wetters.
A common thread that was found in all of them was a diet high in refined
carbohydrates--white flour and white sugar products.
One
of the researches put forth his theory. He stated that his belief for the
adult bed wetting could best be described with an analogy. He said
picture with me someone who is drunk. Alcohol is the most concentrated
sugar that there is. You must have the B complex present to metabolize
sugar. Without the B vitamins you get hangovers and headaches because of
too much sugar. Some of the physiological effects of too much sugar are blown
muscle control. They can't walk a straight line, their speech is slurred
etc. And---he theorized --- in the case of eating high levels of
carbohydrates with little or no B- Vitamins present --bedwetting occurred
because of the High Sugar levels--low B vitamins and the sugar was
blowing bladder control. The bladder is simply a muscle. Too much sugar
--not enough B -- equal wet beds.
If,
as in my case, sugar metabolism and blown muscle control is the problem, then
the Shaklee nutrients can be very effective. I cleansed first with
Alfalfa and Herb Lax a couple of weeks (10 Alfalfa and 3 Herb Lax) My
weight was 125 at the time. Look at weight of the child to adjust. Now that we
have Opti-Flora..--I am suggesting that for every child. If they have
been on Antibiotics their assimilation of nutrients will be questionable until
they straighten out that issue. I also suggest Garlic because during a cleanse
they dump toxins into the bloodstream and it will help eliminate severe reactions
like I experienced. I was feverish and very sick for 7 days because I was
so toxic. Remember I had 21 years of very poor diet and lots of
constipation and no supplementation at all.
After
detoxifying I added 3 tbls of Soy-- 9 B-Complex-- 2 Vita Lea and Chewable C we
didn't have the sustained yet. I weaned off of Herb Lax to 1 a day and stayed
on the Alfalfa. I was on this program a few months, after 6 weeks I
didn't wet the bed anymore, and then I began to add other nutrients to my
daily regime. I also had begun to work on eliminating refined
carbohydrates, white flour and white sugar from my diet and replacing them with
complex carbohydrates, whole grains and honey, date sugar, and pure maple
syrup as my sweeteners.
As
you work with kids-- always make sure there is nothing physiologically
wrong, especially important for boys-an appointment with a Urologist is the
only way to do this.
Stress
is another major player these days in bedwetting. Helping a child to get proper
rest and not have too harried of a schedule is very important. Some
children have benefited from Shaklee's Stress relief complex, especially those
kids that internalize stress.
Work
with diet to eliminate as many sources of extra sugar and refined carbohydrates
as possible; that includes dairy because of the lactose-milk sugar.
For
boys, the Nutrition Almanac cites a study that found Calcium-Magnesium was
very important in helping to control bedwetting. These minerals are natural
muscle relaxants and sometimes a deficiency will cause the bladder to
"twitch" and release urine. Once the deficiency is taken care of the
bladder is relaxed until it is full and the brain will trigger the release at
the right time--
Another
reason for bedwetting is improper sleep patterns. Below are a lot of
information and the web site to search and understand this approach.
I'm
working closely with Dr. Tom Goupil for children (especially boys) who have
"sleep disorders"( that is the cause for their bedwetting) These kids
sleep as if they were in a coma, not receiving correct amount of REM sleep
and need to work with changing the sleep pattern. Families are having excellent
results. Below is some correspondence between Dr. Goupil and myself and his
website addresses.
Dear
Dr. Goupil,
Can
you explain to me why your program is so much
cheaper than the program offered from the Enuresis
Treatment Center in Farmington Hills, MI or Pacific Institute.
I spoke today with them and their program is over $ 2000
for what sounds to be the same type of Bio-feedback used to change sleep
patterns with your program.
Sincerely,
Sherrie
Attila
Dear
Sherrie,
There
are a few reasons for the big difference in price, even though the
programs are the same.
1. We do not pay commissions for programs that are either sold or placed in
homes. The commissions are around $400 to $500 per program placed. We do not
consider this a "sale" but we offer a service. That is not to say
that the sales people do not earn their money, and that is not to say that the
programs offered by Enuresis Treatment and Pacific Intl. do not work and are
not good programs. They are, but because of the costs of employing sales staff,
the costs must be $1800-$2000 to continue to do business in that manner.
2. We do not do large amounts of advertising. Most of our advertising is
word of mouth or on the internet.
3. We do not rent, purchase, and staff several offices. This becomes very
expensive and drives the cost of the program up dramatically. Many years ago I
traveled all around the country for one such company placing programs in
thousands of homes. I was in management with the
company, and was involved in research and training of reps. I remember Mrs. B.
Moore from Enuresis Treatment Center offering me employment in her company in
an effort to expand to other cities. At that time I was with
Pacific Intl. Having learned from the best, my wife and I decided to use our
training and experience in this field and offer this program to families
at
a reasonable cost. It really has been a blessing to be able to do this.
There are some other contributing factors, and if you would like to discuss
this I would be happy to call you and talk about them.
Be
Blessed and Be Well
There
is help --there is hope for bedwetting. Try Shaklee and see how it works.
Be
Blessed , Be Well & Be Dry
Sherrie
Attila
"I’m a single mother of two and a couple of months ago I was a full time Ambulance EMT with two jobs and barely living paycheck to paycheck. Add to that, I didn’t feel good – I needed to address some health challenges but it was hard to focus on that, when I wasn't even sure how I was going to pay the bills and feed my children. Little did I know, just two months later, so much would change for the better.
