Imagine the despair felt by a parent who goes into a child's bedroom nearly every morning, only to find that everything around the child is soaking wet-the child wet the bed. Again. The fact is, thousands of parents recognize this as their reality. The good news, though, is that a bedwetting alarm can make this a distant memory.

No one involved is particularly happy about having soaked mattresses, sheets, and blankets. Mornings spent bathing and laundering are loathsome for all involved, and the tendency is to think that there is something wrong with a child who is otherwise potty-trained. You should know that children do not do this purposely; rather, there is certainly an underlying cause, and a bedwetting alarm can help to curb these experiences.

A bedwetting alarm works by way of a sensor placed inside the pajamas, and a connected speaker that attaches to the shoulder, near the ear, of the night clothes. When liquid comes in contact with the sensor, an alarm sounds through the speaker. Ostensibly, the alarm causes a signal to the brain that stops the muscles from allowing urine out of the bladder.

Now, the alarm probably won't wake the child from a deep slumber, which is how most chronic bedwetters sleep. Instead, the signal to stop urinating occurs subconsciously, while the alarm will probably wake the parents, who can then rouse the sleeper and lead him or her to the bathroom to finish up. With continued use, the child will eventually connect the signals with being woken, and will then start to wake up on their own, with out parental intervention.

Obviously, the fact that these children don't wake up, like most people do when their bladders have reached maximum capacity, is the real problem. Actually, full bladders during sleep hours are not exactly normal, anyway.

There are several reasons why a bladder becomes engorged in the nighttime hours. Drinking too much, or anything at all, right before bedtime is a sure way to encourage the bedwetting. So, too, is the consumption of caffeine. It acts like a water pill, encouraging excess fluids in the body to move into the bladder. The diuretic effects exacerbate bedwetting issues.

So, whether the child drinks too much, has caffeine in the diet, or is simply not receiving signals to the brain that say "I'm asleep, so stop filling my bladder," the bedwetting alarm will condition a child to recognize the need to awaken if and when the bladder needs to be purged. This has helped thousands of families leave the embarrassment and frustration of chronic bedwetting behind.