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- Title
ADVANCED MANAGEMENT OF NOCTURNAL ENURESIS, PREVALENCE AND RISK FACTORS: A CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY ON SYRIAN CHILDREN.
- Authors
Khawam, Iman
- Abstract
Background: Enuresis refers to intermittent incontinence during sleep. Intermittent incontinence (II) is discrete urine leakage of children over five years old in clothes or in bed that happens twice a week for three consecutive months. It may occur during daytime (DI) and/or night (nocturnal incontinence or nocturnal enuresis-NI) and children over five years of age are more subjected to it. Enuresis has a significant clinical burden and causes social, psychological, and emotional distress. Drugs (including desmopressin, tricyclics, and other drugs) have often been tried to treat nocturnal Enuresis Objectives: The main aim of this study was to determine the advanced management methods of nocturnal Enuresis through assessing its prevalence and the factors associated with it among Syrian children. Methodology: A cross-sectional study was conducted in the period of (February 2019- May 2019) among 250 Syrian primary school children ≥ five years old in Aleppo City, SYRIA Results: Various strategies of the most proper treatments have been significantly different, and the least applicable is the use of bed alarm and physical therapy methods In nocturnal Enuresis, motivational therapy, alarm therapy, and drug therapy, such as anticholinergics, imipramine and sertraline are the mainstay of treatment Recommendations: Our study reveals the importance of Routine medical examination and laboratory investigations of children for early evaluation of the problem and proper treatment of such cases.
- Subjects
ENURESIS; URINARY incontinence in children; PHYSICAL therapy; PRIMARY schools; DISEASE prevalence
- Publication
Multi-Knowledge Electronic Comprehensive Journal For Education & Science Publications (MECSJ), 2019, Issue 21, p1
- ISSN
2616-9185
- Publication type
Article