Get Virtual Care
For Businesses
About Us
A member asked:
What can cause adult bed wetting?
5 doctors weighed in across 2 answers
Diabetes mellitis : Two types of diabetes. One causes high sugar and another from inability to concentrate urine. Other causes include seizures or spinal cord injury.
Answered 8/18/2012
5.7k views
Primary or secondary: Primary bed-wetting has been present from birth & can be genetic (? Inherited), due to inadequate nocturnal antidiuretic hormone secretion causing xs nocturnal urine production, diabetes insipidus (inability to concentrate urine, small bladder or bladder reflux. Secondary adult onset enuresis could be from utis, diabetes mellitus, ms, spinal cord tethering, syrinx or cyst, lipoma or tumor of cord.
Answered 6/22/2018
5.4k views
Related Questions
A member asked:
What can I do about my partner's bed wetting? Do they make any nice looking adult pull-ups
2 doctors weighed in across 2 answers
A member asked:
Is adult onset bed wetting a diagnosis of its own? Or is it usually a symptom of something else?
A doctor has provided 1 answer
A member asked:
What are some prescriptions for bed-wetting in male adults?
4 doctors weighed in across 2 answers
A member asked:
My son is 35 months old. The last 2 nights he has started wetting the bed, after previously staying dry for the last 8 months. What could cause this?
3 doctors weighed in across 2 answers
People also searched for:
What are causes of adult bed wetting? Trying to stop this from happening.
What could cause bed wetting in an adult male? This started off and on as a child. I wet the bed almost every night. I had to have a hydrocele surgery as a young adult. Could this be connected? What can I do about this bed wetting?
Can kidney stone cause adult bed wetting?
Causes of adult bed wetting after 25+ yrs of dryness. Can fatigue play role?
Does combing Flexerills with Robaxon cause nocturnal bed wetting?
Didn't find what you're looking for?
90,000 U.S. doctors in 147 specialties are here to answer your questions or offer you advice, prescriptions, and more.
Ask your questionMore of what we treat
Download HealthTap
Video visit and message your doctor
