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It doesn't matter if you're short or tall, or have straight or curly hair.
Bedwetting can happen to jocks, computer geeks–any kid. One thing everyone who wets the bed does have in common? They can't wait until they outgrow it! Until then, it helps to understand the different reasons why:
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How Hormones Can Cause Bedwetting.
In your body there are two parts called kidneys. They make urine out of the things you eat and drink. At night, your body produces something called a "hormone" that tells your kidneys to slow down and stop making so much urine. Some kids don't make enough of this hormone and their kidneys keep on making urine, so they wet the bed. |
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How The Bladder Can Cause Bedwetting.
After the urine leaves your kidneys, it goes into a round thing called the bladder. The bladder is made out of muscle fibers that stretch like a balloon. But some kids have a bladder that's still growing. Even when it stretches, it still isn't big enough to hold urine all the way through the night. And that's why they wet the bed.
At the bottom of the bladder is a ring-shaped muscle called a sphincter (say: "ss-FINK-ter"). When it's closed, it holds the urine in the bladder; when it opens up, the urine flows out. In some kids, this muscle is too weak to stay closed and hold in the urine. So the urine comes out when they don't want it to, especially at night.
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You Can't Help It.
Any of these things could be happening inside your body and in time, you'll just outgrow it. In the meantime, remember that it's not your fault:
- You can't tell your kidneys to make less urine at night.
- You can't tell your bladder to hold more urine or wake you up when it's full.
- And you can't make your sphincter hold on tighter.
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