In children, urinary incontinence is normal, since babies can not completely control the urge of their body. Enuresis daytime is widespread, but even more common is the phenomenon of bedwetting. It was observed that in boys this disease occurs several times more often than in girls.
Who suffers from enuresis?
Up to 3 years of age, incontinence in children at night is not considered a pathology, but at the age of older, especially after 5-6 years of incontinence - this is a very serious problem in the life of the child. By the way, you can not say that enuresis is a problem only in children. Sometimes this deviation occurs in adults.
Causes of urinary incontinence
The causes of the appearance of enuresis can be very diverse. The most common are diseases of the urogenital system, pathologies in the structure of these organs (for example, lack of bladder capacity), and children with delayed development may also experience enuresis. It is generally believed that the constant and frequent use of diapers can lead to the habit of children walking by themselves. A serious cause of urinary incontinence in children and adults is psychological: as a result of a very strong emotional shock, for example, a fright or a situation that can make a psychological trauma. In addition, it became known that heredity is not the last place, and if the parents had an incontinence, the baby can also suffer from it. Also, in adults, enuresis can occur as a result of a craniocerebral trauma, with extreme alcohol intoxication and another. Here, treatment of enuresis with folk remedies that help to get rid of incontinence and those that can help those for whom enuresis is a serious problem is considered.
Treatment of enuresis
- In folk medicine, there are tools that help to strengthen the bladder and to cure incontinence. You need to take onion, rub it to a gruel, measure 1 teaspoon. Then add a teaspoon of honey and grated apple, mix well until the mixture is homogeneous. Half an hour before a meal, you must take this medicine. It should be noted that the mixture should always be prepared fresh, it does not need to store cooked, as the efficiency is lost.
- Treating folk remedies from medicinal herbs helps with enuresis. Prepare such herbs in the required quantity: mint leaves (2 parts), hawthorn flowers (4 parts), St. John's wort (2 parts), horsetail grass (1 part), everything is mixed. Measures 1 teaspoon of the mixture and poured a glass of boiling water, insists 15 minutes, then cooled, filtered, pressed raw materials. Take it like this: five times a day for ½ cup, the last reception no later than 17 hours.
- The herb of St. John's wort, dill seeds, chamomile flowers, cranberry leaves, herb thyme, yarrow, shepherd's purse, arnica flowers are taken. All take in equal parts, mix. Take 1 teaspoon of salt, boil a glass of boiling water, insist 30 minutes, take during the day.
- Treatment of enuresis with means based on essential oils. In the room of a patient who suffers from enuresis, a mixture of such essential oils must be sprayed: 1 part of coriander oil, 3 parts of sage, 2 parts of lavender - 5 drops of a mixture of these oils must be combined with 30 ml of infusion, which is made from any of the named herbs. Spray using an inhaler to make a session every day for 10 minutes.
- The Bay leaf is an assistant in the treatment of nocturnal enuresis. It is necessary that the patient drink a simple decoction, which is prepared from a laurel. To make it, you need to take 3 medium bay leaves pour them a glass of water, put boil on a weak fire for 10 minutes. Then cover the dishes tightly and cool at room temperature. During the week take three times a day for half a cup.
- Together with all the above listed facilities, folk medicine recommends using special compresses that stimulate blood circulation in the lower abdomen. Such compresses strengthen the relaxed bladder, and very compressed, on the contrary, expand. For the compress you need ginger rubbed, it is put in gauze and squeezed juice. It is necessary to squeeze the juice in pre-prepared dishes with hot water (approximately 90 degrees). Then towel into hot water and apply to the stomach before cooling. Top with a dry towel. Impregnated towel is applied hot, so you need to endure. Repeat the action, changing towels a number of times. Do before bed, if the baby - before bedtime.
- A good folk remedy for urinary incontinence - St. John's Wort, by the way, for this purpose, the use of herbs, flowers of this plant is effective. For infusion take a mixture of herbs and flowers of the plant (dry) 40 grams, pour a liter of boiling water, wrap the towel for 3 hours, let it brew, drain. A means of drinking throughout the day, instead of tea, and even if the drug is drunk before going to bed, there will be no nocturnal urinary incontinence in either the child or the adult.
- Another folk remedy is the leaves and berries of cranberries, which help from enuresis. In adults, children, including the elderly, urinary incontinence at night is perfectly cured by this decoction: 1 table spoon of berries and leaves of cranberries are taken, 2 table spoons of St. John's wort are added to it, it is mixed, poured with 3 glasses of water, boiled for 10 minutes. It is taken 3 times a day: the first - at 16 o'clock, and the last - just before bedtime. In spite of the fact that cowberry leaves are a known diuretic, and together with berries has a positive effect with incontinence. In addition, his positive influence is added by the St. John's Wort.