Reuters reports that a sports watch with a bell ringing at regular intervals in a study by Danish scientists helped children who had incontinence.
Typically, these children try to change their behavior, and this is sometimes called bladder training. Children then try to modify their habits of the frequency and amount of drinks they drink, and learn to go to the toilet regularly. However, this often does not work, because children simply forget.
The Danes conducted a study on a group of 60 children aged 5-14 years and found that among 30 children who were not helped by standard bladder training, wearing a watch on their wrists, ringing at regular intervals, made 18 of them respond positively to the new 12-week therapy. The number of wet days decreased by 50-89%.
In the control group, which continued to use traditional bladder training, only 5 children showed partial improvement.
Seven months later, nine children who stopped suffering from urinary incontinence during treatment with the watch were still healthy, and an additional seven of them recovered from the condition. Six of the XNUMX healed no longer needed to use the watch.
Previous studies suggested that about half of children with urinary incontinence improved with changes in fluid intake, correct toilet posture and going to the bathroom, said Dr. Soren Hagstroem of Aarhus University Hospital in Skejby, Denmark.
In his opinion, regularly going to the toilet is especially effective when children are wearing a watch that reminds them to go to the toilet.
The scientist believes that most children with an overactive bladder and urinary incontinence can do without drugs or surgery, if these conditions are not due to anatomical changes or neurological diseases. (PAP)