Any link between bed wetting and crohn's?

[KathrynD]

Hi,
My 11 year old son was diagnosed with Crohn's last week. After his gastroscopy and colonoscopy it seems to be his upper digestive tract that's effected. He started on 50mg prednisalone and Azathioprine 5 days ago and has definitely made a improvement.
I was just wondering if anyone else has noticed a link with bed wetting. He has wet the bed all his life but it was much worse over the last 3 months (when his Crohns symptoms started). Since taking the medication he hasn't wet the bed once which is the 1st time he's gone that long in his whole life. It may just be a (good) side effect of the steroids but I'm interested to know if anyone else has found similar things? I can't find any research that says there's a link.
Kathryn

 

[my little penguin]

Constipation can put pressure on bladder
Googke link its no accident

 

[KathrynD]

Thanks for your reply MLP
Kathryn

 

[Lisa]

It could also be stress-related.....in many instances a child may regress or start bed-wetting with a new or increased stress in their life.....same thing with something like thumb-sucking.....

 

[KathrynD]

Stress has occasionally made his bed wetting worse, but when his Crohn's symptoms started and the bed wetting got worse he just had mouth ulcers and a bit of nausea and really we didn't think anything of it for a month or so. He was devastated and very distressed when he got his diagnosis but the bed wetting cleared up more or less straight away when he started the medication (same day as diagnosis) so I'm not sure in his case how much stress influences it. His Dad wet the bed until he was 12 (a year older than my son), and says he wet the bed every single night and it just simply went away one night and never came back for no reason that he can think of, so it may just be something he'll grows out of.
Thanks for your reply
Kathryn

 

[jmckinley]

Could be worsened by the prednisolone.

 

[DustyKat]

My kids were older when diagnosed so bed wetting was not an issue.

I personally feel that his father's experience with bed wetting plays a role in this and that your son too will grow out of it. Even though your son's symptoms are upper GI the medication regime would suggest that his diagnosis/symptoms were beyond mild?
If that is the case then I would imagine that the stress that his body was put under because of them could well worsen his bed wetting. Then the Prednisone alleviating the symptoms and therefore the stress has led to an improvement.

Dusty. xxx

 

[positivemum]

My son used to regularly wet the bed. he was diagnosed with crohns at 12. Once he had some treatment and inflammation reduced he stopped wetting the bed. I had been convinced for months and months that his bowel was pressing on his bladder so he couldn't control it at night. Seems mother's instinct might have something in it after all.

 

[Mehita]

Same here, kind of. Bed wetting until age 8, dx shortly thereafter. We used the Wet Stop alarm system (www.wetstop.com) and he stopped wetting the bed less than a week later. It never crossed my mind at the the two could be related until much later. I guess in our case I don't think the Crohn's necessarily caused the bed wetting, but more that even tho he was 8 at the time, he had the body of a 6 year old (due to un dx Crohn's) which isn't totally unheard of for bedwetting. Does that make sense?

 

[Smcdonald89]

Hi,
My 11 year old son was diagnosed with Crohn's last week. After his gastroscopy and colonoscopy it seems to be his upper digestive tract that's effected. He started on 50mg prednisalone and Azathioprine 5 days ago and has definitely made a improvement.
I was just wondering if anyone else has noticed a link with bed wetting. He has wet the bed all his life but it was much worse over the last 3 months (when his Crohns symptoms started). Since taking the medication he hasn't wet the bed once which is the 1st time he's gone that long in his whole life. It may just be a (good) side effect of the steroids but I'm interested to know if anyone else has found similar things? I can't find any research that says there's a link.
Kathryn

Hello Kathryn I just wanted to say that my husband is 25 years old
And was diagnosed with uc a couple
Years ago he also has been wetting the bed. I thought it was strange and did some research maybe there is a link I haven't had a professional advice but I thought this might be a clue into what's going
On.

 

[CarolinAlaska]

I wouldn't be surprised.

 

[CrohnsKidMom]

My son doesn't wet the bed, but just prior to diagnosis he was up very often through the night to pee. He had a flare up this past spring, and the frequent need to urinate returned. I asked the GI about it, and he didn't seem to be aware of a link between active disease and frequent urination, but it seemed quite obvious to me in my son's case.

 

[CarolinAlaska]

When J had c.diff recently, she was up frequently at night to pee too.

 

[Cross-stitch gal]

I usually wake up once a night to pee. Doesn't seem to matter if I'm in a flare or not though. If it gets worrisome I would ask the doctor about it.

 

[Heather M]

Yes, my son just turned 12 and has wet the bed every night. He just recently got diagnosed with Crohn's and after getting on the medication and gaining weight, he mysteriously stopped wetting the bed. I definitely believe there is a connection.

 

[Pilgrim]

I'm relieved to see this thread.H has never wet the bed but has had episodes of frequent urination which doesn't test as an UTI. I think there is a connection but wonder how? Inflammation pressing on bladder?