Common symptoms and treatment methods for pre-school children with frequent urination

What should be done when children experience frequent urination and urgency?

A parent inquires about their 13-month-old daughter’s frequent urination issue, seeking treatment advice.

Explore the issue of a five-year-old girl’s increased daytime urination, particularly severe at night, and provide professional advice.

Discuss whether bedwetting in children is related to kidney deficiency, and provide professional advice.

Discuss the phenomenon of frequent urination and bedwetting in children, analyze whether it is related to kidney deficiency, and provide professional advice.

Excessive water intake and frequent urination in children can be a normal phenomenon, but it could also be pathological, and it requires judgment based on specific circumstances.

Is it normal for a child to drink a lot of water and urinate frequently?

A 5-month-old baby urinating every one and a half hours is normal, but the frequency may vary depending on fluid intake.

Frequent nighttime urination in children is normal. Adults typically urinate 4 to 6 times during the day and 0 to 2 times at night, with an increased number of times considered frequent urination. Frequent urination is a symptom, not a disease. It can be caused by various factors, including nervous and mental factors, post-sickness weakness, parasitic infections, and so on. For children with frequent urination, it is necessary to rule out urinary tract infections, inflammatory conditions in the external genitalia or penile area. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that frequent urination is mainly due to the child’s weak constitution, kidney Qi not being stable, bladder constraint inability, and its transformation not being smooth. In addition, excessive fatigue, deficiency of the spleen and lung meridians, upper deficiency not controlling the lower part, earth deficiency not controlling water, bladder Qi weakness, and thus frequent urination occur. Therefore, frequent urination is often a deficiency condition and requires nourishment; consuming more plant-based organic alkaline foods and less meat, more vegetables.