Danish researchers observed that kids who continue to wet the bed even after drug treatment, may have too-high levels of certain hormone-like substances. Scientists are now trying to find whether giving a drug to block the substances, called prostaglandins, will work for kids or not.
Doctors usually prescribe DDAVP (Desmopressin), a drug to stop bed-wetting. But it works only for 70% of the kids. The rest 30% of the kids don’t benefit from it.
Currently studies are being conducted to find out whether indomethacin, a prostaglandin-blocking non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug will help this condition.
Bed-wetting isn’t a serious health problem, but most of the kids feel embarassed and humiliated by it. It may also have serious emotional consequences.
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