Reply from Bob, Child's Age 14,15 - 4/22/02 - IP#: 67.226.77.145

Well said, Steven. But with all due respect, the stastistics in regard to wetness alarm cure rates are taken from medical references (e.g. Butler, RJ, "Nocturnal Enuresis", Butterworth Press, pp. 123), not from manufacturer's literature. The spontaneous bedwetting cure rate is 15% per year, with no intervention, but the cure rate with alarms is at least four times that (60%). Therefore, only a fourth of those alarm successes would have stopped on their own. Granted 40% of kids do not improve with alarm therapy, and in those kids diapers may be the best way to manage the problem, but always keeping in mind the risks of diapers. Alarm failure is usually due to the child/teen not being awakened by the alarm, in which case a different alarm should be tried (e.g. vibration), and parental backup is essential. We used a Fisher Price wireless nursery monitor for my daughter, so we could hear the alarm as well, until she could awaken to it by herself. Wetness alarm training (or wakeup training with a simple alarm clock) does require work on the part of both the parent and the child, but the effort is well worth it.