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Adult bed wetting, or adult nocturnal enuresis, is a condition which plagues many men and women of all ages and from all walks of life.
Bed wetting occurs when an adult or teenager cannot control his or her bladder during sleep or overnight and ends up urinating or wetting the bed. This loss of bladder control in bed may or may not actually wake the person from sleep.
Nocturnal enuresis is generally used to describe wetting that specifically occurs at night or during sleep. There are different types of adult bed wetting with different causes associated with them. Some adults who are older or have physical ailments may also suffer from daytime enuresis or wetting for various reasons.
Adult bed wetting is a rarely advertised and less discussed problem in both the medical and online communities than many other physical ailments. Adults who suffer from nocturnal enuresis often have bed wetting problems for reasons much different from children.
Adult bed wetting is often preventable and even “curable” through a number of different methods, including taking certain medicines, changing behavior or working through psychological issues.
Wetting the bed as an adult, especially when you never have before, is usually a symptom of a larger problem. Your enuresis problems could be alerting you to a potentially serious physical problem and you should consult a medical professional. Ideally, finding and solving that underlying problem will stop your bed wetting.
Adult bed wetting is a potentially embarrassing and under reported problem that can often be corrected with the proper medical treatments. There are actually several different classifications of adult nocturnal enuresis, or adult bed wetting,
primary nocturnal enuresis sufferers are people who, as children, teens and adults, had bed wetting issues throughout most of their life.
secondary nocturnal enuresis is defined as bed wetting which begins as teen or adult often years of not having any such bed wetting problems.
Adult bed wetting can be caused by any one of a number of conditions such as an enlarged prostate in men, pelvic issues in women, physical abnormalities, urinary tract issues and infections, bladder cancer, sleep apnea or even diabetes. Certain medications, excessive alcohol or other lifestyle changes could also contribute to adult onset nocturnal enuresis.
