I've heard that reducing the caffeine can help reduce bedwetting. Is that true? Expert Bedwetting Advice.

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Jenny Lewis
Pediatrician

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I've heard that reducing the caffeine can help reduce bedwetting. Is that true?

Answer

According to an article in the Pediatric Clinics of North America, doctors from the Division of Pediatric Urology at the University of California Los Angeles School of Medicine do recommend removing caffeine from the diet of children who are bedwetters. This makes sense because caffeine is a diuretic and causes the body to lose extra fluids.

The same doctors from UCLA also recommend that you do not restrict your child's fluid intake, rather, change the times he has fluids to 40 percent in the morning, 40 percent in the afternoon and 20 percent in the evening.

Bridget Swinney, MS, RD
Nutrition Expert

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