Babies are known to have their share of wetting their bed. These are normal occurrences since they usually have to be trained prior to understanding how to control these personal qualms. But this study relates it with loud snoring, something that will surely be an issue for infants that has to be addressed. It is not plainly an issue about snoring but rather about looking at the whole picture for our kids’ sakes.
“Our findings were really an eye-opener,” said study co-author Dr. David Gozal, director of the division of pediatric sleep medicine at the University of Louisville, in Kentucky. “Why children with bed-wetting have high levels of this hormone; that will require a bit more research.”
About 9 percent of boys and 6 percent of girls at age 7 have trouble sleeping through the night without wetting the bed, according to the U.S. National Institutes of Health. The problem — which affects about 5 million American children — runs strongly in families. Nighttime bed-wetting, which is also called enuresis, is not the fault of the child or parent. For some reason, the child’s brain isn’t responding to normal cues to wake up and empty the bladder.
(Source) Washingtonpost.com
