Caffeine restriction can improve, reduce severity of bed-wetting

Medical Xpress / HealthDay / BMJ Paediatrics Open ^ | Feb. 2, 2024 | Elana Gotkine / Sadra Rezakhaniha et al

[ConservativeMind]

Caffeine restriction can help improve and reduce the severity of primary monosymptomatic nocturnal enuresis (PMNE), according to a study.

Sadra Rezakhaniha and colleagues investigated the effect of caffeine restriction on the improvement and severity of PMNE in a randomized clinical trial involving 534 children aged 6 to 15 years. Caffeine consumption was <30 mg/day in the intervention group and 80 to 110 mg/day in the control group.

Before caffeine restriction, the mean number of bed-wettings was 3.5 and 3.4 times/week in the intervention and control groups, respectively. The researchers found that at one month after the intervention, the mean number of bed-wettings was 2.3 and 3.2 times/week in the intervention and control groups, respectively. In the intervention group, caffeine restriction significantly reduced the severity of enuresis. Improvement (dry at night) occurred in 20.2 and 6.7% of children in the caffeine restriction and control groups, respectively, with a relative risk of 0.615. Caffeine restriction significantly reduced enuresis, with a number-needed-to-treat of 7.417.

"Caffeine restriction can help reduce PMNE or its severity," the authors write. "Constructive limitation of caffeine is suggested as one of the first-line treatments in the management of PMNE."

[Mears]

In soda…..iced and hot tea and coffee .

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[Harmless Teddy Bear]

I know what they are give it in, my question was why.

Our kids do not get caffeinated drinks at home barring the occasional hot coco and rarely when we eat out.

As a parent you are suppose to control what your children are eating and drinking.

[Mears]

We can’t be at kids side 24/7 …….I never had soda in the home though .

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[Harmless Teddy Bear]

And at the amount they were using the kids were slamming back energy drinks in quantity.

Either the parents were buying them, they were stealing them or they were accepting them from strangers.

In all cases the parents have bigger problems then what little Johnny is drinking.

[deport]

but never in my WILDEST DREAMS would I have allowed coffee or soda for my kids under 15!

They're NUTS ENOUGH as it is, LOL!

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True enough but in today's environment it is vastly different from the past. jmo

[weezel]

I did.

[weezel]

I did. Drink coffee at age 6 that is.

[Vaduz]

Funnel + Hose + Duct Tape + Jug = Reduce Bed-Wetting

Works with beer also

[DannyTN]

Marking this one for review in 10 to 20 years.

[Aut Pax Aut Bellum]

Someone should tell Dr. Jill