Bed wetting in kids in teenagers is normal and is often caused by genetics, hormonal imbalances, deep sleep patterns and a delay in physical development.
Sometimes a kids or teens bladder may not be growing as fast as it should, which means that the kid or teen cannot hold their urine in through the night as the bladder fills up too fast and then causes them to release the urine involuntarily at night.
Most kids and teens outgrow bed wetting naturally, although in some cases, bed wetting can be a sign of stress, constipation or urinary tract infection.
But most cases of bed wetting are nothing to worry about and resolve on their own.
Many children that wet the bed are also very heavy sleepers and as a result the child's brain fails to register the nerve signals from a full bladder so that they don't wake up in time and in turn they wet the bed instead.
The body also produces a hormone naturally called vasopressin or ADH at night, which is what signals the kidneys to slow down urine production at night.
But some kids don't produce enough of the vasopressin hormone, which results in an overproduction of urine overnight that the bladder cannot hold.
A child's bladder can also simply be too small to hold the volume of urine or pee that is produced while the child or teen sleeps, or their bladder muscles can be overactive.
Bed Wetting also runs strongly in families and if both parents wet the bed as children themselves, then their child or children also have a 70 percent chance of being a bed wetter as well.
And because the bladder and bowels are located next to each other, a backed up bowel and constipation can place physical pressure on the bladder and result in a loss of bladder control at night and lead to bed wetting.
Kids should also wear diapers or pull ups for bed wetting.
Bed wetting occurs in many kids and even teens and diapers make sleeping much more comfortable and also keep the kids and teens clothes and bed dry from wetting the bed.
It's worse to wake up in a soaking wet bed, when a diaper can help contain the pee and help the kid or teen get a good nights sleep.
Some kids who wet the bed may need to wear regular tape on diapers, like Luvs, Pampers, Huggies, Parents choice size 8 diapers etc.
And some kids may only need to wear bed wetting pull ups like Goodnites bed wetting pull ups or even regular pull ups if they fit into them.
Diapers don't make bed wetting worse, as bed wetting is not something a child can control and eventually they will outgrow it, but until the child outgrows bed wetting, it's best for the child to wear diapers.
Here's a link to a video of a 7 year old boy wearing Luvs diapers and they fit him just fine.
Some kids also need to wear diapers all the time for autism, incontinence etc and some kids just love to wear diapers and that is okay as well.
7 year old boy Nathan wearing Luvs diapers