ENURESIS: A THREE-YEAR STUDY OF THE VALUE OF A WAKING APPARATUS

Abstract

Over a three-year period (1959-1962), 122 children with essential nocturnal enuresis, observed at The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, used a waking apparatus for an average time of 3(1/2) months. All were wet almost every night before the trial.At follow-up, the average duration of which was nine months, 50% were dry more than 7.5 nights out of 10. Thirty patients (40%) were completely dry.Since essential enuresis is probably due to an isolated maturational lag, progress in so-called "failures" of treatment can be measured in terms of an increasing initial dry interval between initiation of sleep and first voiding.