Teaching Topics

Case Studies

Attentive voiders

Children who are “rule followers”

Dryness due to dehydration

Dryness on DDAVP

Managing bladder fullness during computer games

Not pooping for “99” days

Putting a child back in pull-ups

Shy children

Spurts of daytime wetting and poop accidents

Toddlers who are dry but who wake up to pee

Waking up thirsty in the middle of the night

Why children deny they need to pee while they are doing the pee pee dance

Dryness during the summer holidays

Motivation to hydrate during the school day

Alarm treatment in Germany in 1931

Pooping during sleep

Spontaneous improvement in bedwetting in an adolescent

Children who are scared of the dark

Children who try to “train” their bladder

Teachers who insist children pee only at scheduled breaks

Teachers who do not allow water bottles at the desk

Average wet or damp pull-ups

High fiber is great but water is always necessary for a soft daily poop

Toddlers prefer to poop in their own bathroom and for their mother to be the person to wipe their bum.

It is not enough to poop every day, a child must empty well when they poop.

Anything that distracts a mother can lead to a change in bowel health.

For Attentive Voiders, frequency is sometimes a Barometer of Bowel Health.

Great hydration throughout the school day and especially in the morning before lunch, is fundamental to achieving dryness at night.

Mothers almost always overestimate how often their child poops.

Don’t use DDAVP Nasal Spray

Children who don’t pee at school are only able to manage this if they don’t drink much.

“She drank more water in the last three months than the last three years.”

Holding postures and daytime wetting without urgency.

Beautiful pelvic ultrasound demonstration of the effect of pasty poop on bladder capacity and control.

“We were lucky that she had the daytime wetting.”

School Fire Alarms and Daytime Wetting

“Body Scan” as a Technique to Get in Touch with the Bladder and Bowel Signals.

Treat the child not the lab test!

Elementary-aged children who wet enough to change their clothes while at school should be referred to specialist.