You can’t really prevent bed wetting. The bed wetting that your child is experiencing is due to two things. The first one being if a parent was a bed wetter, your child has a 45% chance of being a bed wetter.

The second reason depends on the maturity of the nervous system. Parents please remember; all children develop differently. Some children also develop faster than others and that is the way nature has done it since the beginning of time. However; there are some things that you can do to encourage your child. 

• Encourage your child to go to the bathroom before going to bed and cut out the drinking of fluids late in the evening. Giving them a drink of water before going to bed is permitted.
• Buy a plastic mattress cover
• Bladder stretching exercises help to increase the bladder’s volume
• Bedwetting alarms: Can be purchased at most pharmacies. When the alarm senses urine it will go off waking the child up so that they can use the toilet.
• Medications such as DDAVP (desmopressin acetate) and Tofrinil (imipramine) have to proven to be very effect. The results vary however. These drugs are commonly used for sleepovers or when a child goes to camp.