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High Dry Night Rate for Users of New Bedwetting AI Alarm

High compliance users of the new bedwetting alarm, GOGOband, which utilizes real-time heart rate variability analysis and applies artificial intelligence (AI) to create an alarm to wake the user, have a 93 percent dry night rate, according to a study published online April 28 in the Journal of Pediatric Urology.  Israel Franco, M.D., from the Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut, and Jon Coble, from GoGoband Inc. in Richmond, Virginia, evaluated a new bedwetting alarm, GOGOband, and assessed the efficacy in the first 18 months of use. All 54 individuals (mean age, 10.1 years) who used the system for more than 30 nights from Jan. 1, 2020, to June 2021, were included. Read more.

Source: Health Day, May 30, 2023

Bedwetting in Children (Nocturnal Enuresis)

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Mother checking her sleeping child who sometimes has bedwetting problems.

Nighttime bedwetting is called nocturnal enuresis or enuresis. Most children out grow bedwetting by the age of five, but many children at age seven (5% – 15%) continue to experience problems becoming continent – staying dry at night. Many of these children will stop bedwetting in their late childhood or teen years, but some will continue to experience enuresis into adulthood (0.5% – 1% in adults). Rarely, adults who did not previously experience enuresis will begin to experience bedwetting. A sudden onset of enuresis in adulthood can be a warning sign of serious health issues like diabetes, a urinary tract infection (UTI) or neurologic conditions and so a healthcare professional should be quickly consulted.Continue reading