Cost of Bedwetting Going Up

Many parents use disposable diapers as a way of dealing with their childrens bedwetting. For these families the price of their childs nighttime incontinence may be getting more expensive.

Chicago, IL (PRWEB) April 29, 2005 -- Many parents use disposable diapers as a way of dealing with their childrens bedwetting. For these families the price of their childs nighttime incontinence may be getting more expensive. Dallas based Kimberly Clark expects to raise the price of their disposable diapers including Huggies, Pull-ups and GoodNites by approximately 5% effective July 2005 due to the increasing cost of raw materials involved in manufacturing.

According to the National Kidney Foundation approximately five million children wet their beds every night. For Kimberly Clark and other diaper dealers this adds up to big business and big profits. For parents of children who wet, it is a line item in their familys budget. A typical bedwetting child uses two disposable diapers per day at a cost of $1.00 each, this adds-up to over seven hundred dollars a year. The truth is some of these diapers cost even more and prices are rising.

If your child is over seven years old and a deep sleeper who has never been dry at night (for more than a few days); you might want to be more aggressive in finding a long term solution to his or her bedwetting. If there is a history of bedwetting in your family such as a parent, sibling or even an aunt or uncle who wet, your child might not out grow" his or her bedwetting so easily. Statistically about 15 % of eight year-olds wet the bed nightly and over 3 % of fifteen year-olds have never been dry. It is true that many of these children will become dry on their own. In fact many parents hear from their physicians to just wait and see." If your child is one for whom the wait and see" method is not effective it could cost you thousands of dollars.

The TRY for DRY team based at Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago offers this advice. In order affect a permanent long-term "cure" for bedwetting, your child's "best bet" will be the use of a bedwetting alarm. This small device is worn every night until he or she has achieved fourteen consecutive dry days and nights. The effect is not instant. The process can take from 3 weeks to 3 months until the child has obtained this goal. The good news is this short investment now can save you from years of future wet nights.

A typical alarm based program will cost about $100, which compares to less than two months of disposable diapers. To learn more about bedwetting including alarm therapies and pharmaceutical alternatives read "Getting to Dry: How to Help Your Child Overcome Bedwetting" published by Harvard Common Press or visit tryfordry.com.

Reno Lovison is a member of the TRY for DRY Team and contributed editorial assistance to the book Getting to Dry."

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