Cost of Bedwetting Going Up
Many parents use disposable diapers as a way of dealing with their children’s bedwetting. For these families the price of their child’s nighttime incontinence may be getting more expensive.
Chicago, IL (PRWEB) April 29, 2005 -- Many parents use disposable diapers as
a way of dealing with their children’s bedwetting. For these families the price
of their child’s nighttime incontinence may be getting more expensive. Dallas
based Kimberly Clark expects to raise the price of their disposable diapers
including Huggies, Pull-ups and GoodNites by approximately 5% effective July
2005 due to the increasing cost of raw materials involved in manufacturing.
According to the National Kidney Foundation approximately five million
children wet their beds every night. For Kimberly Clark and other diaper dealers
this adds up to big business and big profits. For parents of children who wet,
it is a line item in their family’s budget. A typical bedwetting child uses two
disposable diapers per day at a cost of $1.00 each, this adds-up to over seven
hundred dollars a year. The truth is some of these diapers cost even more and
prices are rising.
If your child is over seven years old and a deep
sleeper who has never been dry at night (for more than a few days); you might
want to be more aggressive in finding a long term solution to his or her
bedwetting. If there is a history of bedwetting in your family such as a parent,
sibling or even an aunt or uncle who wet, your child might not “out grow” his or
her bedwetting so easily. Statistically about 15 % of eight year-olds wet the
bed nightly and over 3 % of fifteen year-olds have never been dry. It is true
that many of these children will become dry on their own. In fact many parents
hear from their physicians to just “wait and see.” If your child is one for whom
the “wait and see” method is not effective it could cost you thousands of
dollars.
The TRY for DRY team based at Children's Memorial Hospital in
Chicago offers this advice. In order affect a permanent long-term "cure" for
bedwetting, your child's "best bet" will be the use of a bedwetting alarm. This
small device is worn every night until he or she has achieved fourteen
consecutive dry days and nights. The effect is not instant. The process can take
from 3 weeks to 3 months until the child has obtained this goal. The good news
is this short investment now can save you from years of future wet nights.
A typical alarm based program will cost about $100, which compares to
less than two months of disposable diapers. To learn more about bedwetting
including alarm therapies and pharmaceutical alternatives read "Getting to Dry:
How to Help Your Child Overcome Bedwetting" published by Harvard Common Press or
visit tryfordry.com.
Reno Lovison is a member of the TRY for DRY Team and
contributed editorial assistance to the book “Getting to Dry.”
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