Gastrointestinal motility and disorders · Case-control study

Are children who wet the bed more constipated?

Paper: Children with enuresis – are they more constipated than others?
Borgström et al. · Journal of Pediatric Urology 2026 · doi.org/10.1016/j.jpurol.2026.105834

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Are children who wet the bed more constipated? Researchers compared 66 children with bedwetting and 58 without. They found no support for more constipation, but fewer bowel movements and a smaller functional bladder capacity.

AI-assisted summary with an AI voice, not reviewed by the authors. Made from the paper under its CC BY licence. Read the paper before relying on a finding. Keywords: nocturnal enuresis, pediatric constipation, functional bladder capacity, detrusor overactivity, rectal diameter, stool frequency.