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Day time and night time wetting

Useful information and tools for parents and carers to help manage children and young people's wetting issues.

Day time wetting

ERIC (The Children's Bowel and Bladder charity) has information and support on dealing with bladder problems and incontinence in children and young people.

The ERIC website also includes a downloadable Intake-Output chart for recording every drink and every wee or poo (wetting and soiling) that your child has / does. There are also instructions on how to complete the Intake-output chart.

Night time wetting

Bladder & Bowel UK has information about bedwetting.

Bladder & Bowel UK also provides information about bedwetting in children with disabilities and additional needs.

ERIC (The Children's Bowel and Bladder charity) also has information about reasons and how to stop bedwetting.

Download a night time diary and find instructions on how to use it on the ERIC website.

Recording charts

Use these charts to record night time bedwetting.

Constipation

Useful information guides and recording charts for parents and carers to measure your child's constipation needs.

There are a range of baseline recording charts which will enable you to gain a clear picture of your child/young person's continence needs and fluid/food intake.

Information guides

Information and support about constipation issues in children and young people is available from Bowel and Bladder UK.

Visit ERIC (The Children's Bowel and Bladder charity) to find out what is normal and what can go wrong with children's bowel health.

Recording charts

Information sheets, assessment tools, reward charts and visuals

How to access continence products

Details of who is eligible for continence products and how to access products.

Children and young people aged 5 to 18 can be referred to the service by professionals and family.
Email continenceproducts@wsh.nhs.uk to make an enquiry.
If you live in Lowestoft and Waveney, you need to be referred to your local service that covers this area.

Products are not provided before the child/ young person's 5th birthday.

How to access our service

Parents and carers and professionals working with a family can make a referral for continence products using this form:

Continence products referral

Funding is provided by the Integrated Care Board (ICB) to support continence product provision. The funding is provided as a contribution to the young person’s daily requirement, families may need to purchase additional products to fully meet needs. If eligible to receive products there will be an offer of up to 4 products per day. Please note the service does not provide pull-up/pants style products

Containment products will not be supplied before a child has reached their fifth birthday and then only following a continence assessment using agreed assessment tools and, where appropriate, a trial of toilet training for at least three months.

All children and young people must be supported with a toilet training programme for at least three months prior to providing containment products unless it is clear that this is inappropriate e.g. in children with a neuropathic bladder and/or bowel. Appropriate support and interventions will be offered to support progress.

Containment products will not be supplied for treated medical conditions such as nocturnal enuresis, constipation with overflow (soiling).

Containment products will not be supplied where a child or young person has achieved urinary continence but refuses to open their bowels on the toilet. Appropriate support should be offered in these circumstances.

Useful resources for continence

Web links to other services offering support for continence, including suppliers of adaptive clothing.

The following websites provide helpful information with continence in children and young people:

Examples of suppliers of adaptive clothing