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My name is Doctor Randy Hyde and I have Amy with me, appreciate you being here. We're
going to talk about Diurnal Enuresis or daytime wetting. Randy, tell me is daytime wetting
the same thing as a child that just forgets to go? Leaves it to the very last minute,
maybe they're busy playing, and they just don't bother to go to the toilet. I know a
lot of parents that just say, "I know my child knows, but they just are to lazy to go." Yes,
too lazy to go. You know, and some kids are like that, but not a kid who has Diurnal Enuresis,
not at all. It is out of their control. They have this urgency. It hits them like a freight
train, "Ahh, I got to go, I got to go!" And, they may only have three seconds before they
can make it to the potty in time to go to the bathroom. It's not laziness, it's not
any of those things, it's that urgency. Because their bladder's small, covered with nerve
fibers, and as soon as that starts to expand, "Ahh, I've got to go!" And then it's all over
for them. So it's an immediate thing? It is, it's immediate. And, you know, bless their
little hearts, it's humiliating for them. So, Randy, could you just sum up the difference
between night time bed wetting and day time wetting. Yes, night time bed wetting is, actually,
deep sleep. Where a child is so deeply asleep that their brains aren't getting the signal
from their bladders, and that's genetic, physiological. Day time wetting, or Diurnal Enuresis, is
when there is a functional small bladder and a weak sphincter, or gate, in which the urine
passes. And, so that, there is this tremendous urgency, "OH, I've got to go, I've got to
go!" And, often, it's too late.