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Bed-wetting in older children and young adults is common and treatable

  • Written by Patrina Ha Yuen Caldwell, Staff Specialist, Centre for Kidney Research, The Children's Hospital at Westmead; Senior Lecturer, Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Sydney
imageAbout 0.5-3% of older children and young adults still wet the bed at night.from www.shutterstock.com.au

This article is part of our series looking at health conditions in children. Later in the week, we’ll have others about childhood migraines and slapped cheek disease. Read yesterday’s article about nightmares and night terrors here.

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