Primary Nocturnal Enuresis

Primary Nocturnal Enuresis

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The purpose of this assignment I am going to do Primary Nocturnal

Enuresis, the reason why I am going to do this is because I do not

know much about Nocturnal enuresis and I would like to find out more.

Ethically I am going to maintain confidentiality and by doing this I

have changed the names of the child and family that I have based this

assignment upon. Forsythe and Butler (1989) Enuresis is the

'involuntary discharge of urine by day or night or both, in a child

aged five years or older, in the absence of congenital or acquired

defects of the nervous system or urinary tract'. Nocturnal enuresis is

bed wetting it can be divided into to Primary and Secondary if a child

has gone six months without wetting the bed and then starts wetting

the bed it is termed as secondary nocturnal enuresis this is caused by

more psychological problems. Primary is when the child has gone six

months without wetting the bed. Habel (2001) has noted that nocturnal

enuresis is most common in boys and so has Robinson L M (2004)

During an enuresis clinic met a family in which two of the four

children attend the clinic. Jason 12 and Jane 7 are the two, which

attend the clinic they have a