MANY parents have a child who wets the bed. Research shows that bed-wetting occurs in more than half of Irish families, but children still feel distressed and humiliated when they do it. Also, parents worry the children miss out on many of the activities that are part and parcel of childhood.

Recent research into stress levels of mums whose children wet the bed found almost seven in 10 felt bedwetting was a constant worry for them, partly due to having to repeatedly change bed sheets, also to frustration felt when recommended techniques didn’t work.