The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-22

In Germany, according to Peer. bed-wetting occurs chiefly in psychopathlc childrtn; that is, it is a functional nollrosis, Nelken, another German physician, regards involuntary evacuation of the bladder during sleep as due to nervous irritability Both mean ing much the same thing. Pro- longed indifference. wrong mental attitude of parents or others; cod ding; poor discipline: abnormal excitement of the child especially late in the day or m the evening; permitting ihe child to have such stimulants as coffee, tea. cocoa or even beer and wine: parents re- garding the habit as natural in the family because some forbear had it, nagging the child about it, espe- cially in the presence of others; these are some of the factors which go to make the child 'neurotic' or psychopathic."
 pr Ralph Hamill. in this coun- try. found that the child with the right encouragement could refrain from wetting the bed after Il req sonable earnest endeavor. Just as you or l cad awake al an unusually early hour in the morning if we earnestly wish to do so to keep an appointment.
 M any physicians regard bed wetting as fatigue neurosis. Or in popular variance it is a nerve weakness, and SC q system of train ing of the automatic nerve mucle mechanism that controls the blad- der is helpful. The child is required to follow d clock schedule for en- tying the bladder throughout the day, say every hour in the first week. and after that every two hours, and he success of this plan depends on the faithfulness with which the schedule is adhered to in all circumstances. After Il regu- lar habit is established, then the child should be required to control the desire for five or ten minutes, now and then.
 The administration of mild nerve sedatives. such as the bromides, has been tried in some cases, but with little benefit. More effective in strengthening the automatic neuro- muscular mechanism is the pro- longed administration of calcium chloride or calcium lactate. Mix d rounded teaspoonful of powdered acacia (gum arabic) with one ounce of calcium chloride or call 'cium lactats and dissolve this in a pint of water. Tho dose for child three to eight years of age is q teaspoonful, with any sweetened fruit juice or fruit juice beverage. fHhiS- Sh hn 1c twice day over d period of six or eight weeks. If the bed wetting stops after a few weeks the cal cium should be continued for a few weeks longer anyway.
 Some readers may notice that this is the same remedy I often suggest for hay fever, asthma, mi graine and what have you. But please don't be sarcastic about 1t. I'm just kind hearted old geezer trying to do the best can for everybody. and if my medicine doesn't cure anything, at. least I'm pretty darn confident 1t will do no harm.
 Besides these suggestions I have a lot of other practical data gath cred from the, medical lore of many countries and many years, and any parent or guardian who sends a stamped addressed en- velope and asks for the mono graph on Bed wetting may have it with my blessing. But I have. no information or advice to give un- less you mention the child is yours.
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