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[quote=Anonymous]If your son was always wetting the bed how could it be an infection or constipation?

My daughter had constipation and then a a partial bowel obstruction at age 5. Side effects are usually stomach pains, dry heaving, various forms of stool (sometimes liquid, the poop never being wide, hard and solid, etc..) Anyway, she never once wet the bed.

There has only been one study done in 2011 that mentions constipation and wetting the bed.  If your child has normal bowel movements and poops regularly (which you should look into if you haven't) getting him on Miralax or something else will not help and could his bowels addicted/ immune to such medicine.  Plus if you go to a gastro the FIRST thing they will tell you to do is do a 10 day bowel history and come back.  And a ped can check for constipation with an abdominal check.

Have you checked him while he is sleeping?  Some bedwetting is caused by enlarged tonsils or sleep apnea.  Some from diabetes, some from a sleep disorder, some from allergies.

I think your best bet is to do a urinalysis, urine culture, abdominal palpations at pediatrician, 10 day bowel history, check him in his sleep for snoring/apnea, and find out if he is peeing around the same time each night (60-90min after falling asleep precisely) which can mean sleep disorder.  It might mean you have a lack of sleep a few days but if you really want to look into a specialist, you have to have all your eggs in one basket.

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