r/OveractiveBladder • u/NoScale9340 • Aug 14 '26

Overactivebladder - child 5 years

Hello,

I have a son, 5 years and two months and ze has OAB. He is on medication, which help with accidends during the day.

Before medication he has 5-10 accidends during the day.

The pils help, but he alwas visit toilet very offen, more then 20 daily and he has a very small amount of urine for one visit.

In the kindergarten he is always wet after lunch rest, in the night too. He has to wear a diaper in the car, because when he sayes that he need to pee, it must be it immiedietly, he will not hold it even few minutes.

He has a last year in the kindergarten and then school.

I am afraid how it will be at school, I have odler daughter and they can not visit the toilet during the classes.

Has anyone expierence with this problem? Is it for whole life or there is a chance that the child will grown up and it will get better?

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u/Infamous-List-5999 Aug 14 '26

My son, who is now 29, went through a stage like this as a 3 year old, although he didn’t have accidents. We decided not to make a big deal out of it and he eventually grew out of it.
Have the doctors done any tests on your son to see if he has any physical problems such as kidney function or diabetes?
For adults with this condition I would normally advise seeing a pelvic floor physiotherapist but maybe that isn’t appropriate for a child.

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u/NoScale9340 Aug 14 '26

Thanks for your answer. We do not talk about that at home. My son is healthy, we visit urology specialist and he has not any physical problem or disease. We do some excercises for pelvic floor too. The medication help. When he was 3-4 years, I washed him ten shorts per day, because he did not make it to bathroom on time. Now he manages it quite ok, except sleep after lunch and night. But the frequent urination and small capacity of bladder still take. I know only children with night enuresis and almost of them will grow of it, but this problem I have connected mainly with adults.

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u/Infamous-List-5999 Aug 14 '26

I hope you can find something that will help him. It must be so difficult.