Bedwetting Treatments Through the Ages

Bedwetting Treatments Through the Ages HISTORY OF BEDWETTING TREATMENTS 1550 BC 77 AD The earliest record of enuresis in literature is in the Papyrus Ebers, an ancient Egyptian medical document. It suggested a mixture of juniper berries, cypress leaves, and beer as a cure. During the 1st century, Gaius Plinius Secundus, or better known as Pliny the Elder, a Roman writer and philosopher, recommended that children eat boiled mice with their food. 1600s 1700s 1800s |1900s |1950 1642 1709 19th - 20th Century Belladonna used to temporarily "paralyze"the bladder muscles. Bits of pig bladder sprinkled onto the child's bed. Forced to drink urine for wetting 1870 1902 1956 the bed. Small dilator used to rub silver nitrate onto the urethral canal of bedwetting girls. Popular bed wetting treat- ment in the late 1800s (+) Collodion applied to tip of penis. The child had to rip out the "cork" when he needed to urinate. 1747 Dr. Gordon Ambrose Penile clamp through mid-1900s. suggested using hypno- therapy, or hypnosis, to treat bedwetting children. fastened to the TREATMENTS IN male urethra. CULTURES 1904 1979 NAVAHO 1881 UT TERRITORY CO The first "bell & pad" alarm was created by Dr. Meinhard Pfaundler, a German physician, who placed a urine-sensitive pad, made of a zinc-copper plated iron, under the child's bottom. Dr. Hilal Malem created the first body-worn alarm for general use. Malem Medical is now the world's 1947 Two sponges are connected by a battery, and when sponges become wet, alarm sounded. largest bedwetting alarm manufacturer. Navaho tribe believed that children would not NM "soil" the nest, if they stood naked over a 1925 1989 burning bird's nest. In the early 1920s, doctors began using posterior pituitary snuff, powder that is inhaled through the nose. Desmopressin acetate (DDAVP), a man-made form of vasopressin, approved by FDA for bedwetting treat- ment. Given as a nasal spray, and then in 1998, as a tablet. Pre-1970s 1938 AFRICA In Nigeria, frogs were tied to a child's penis, so that the loud croak In 2007 nasal spray received Black Box warning after hyponatremic seizures. would scare the child from urinating. 1999 AAW A 1938 Japanese urologist and a telephone maker created a $1.5 million electronic alarm that measured a sleeping child's brainwaves and monitored the bladder with Hobart and Mowrer are credited for the first "bell & pad" alarm in the U.S. Similar to Pfaundler's model, West African people would pour ashes and water onto the child's head. an alarm sounded when urine closed the circuit on the bronze mesh screen. a stethoscope-like tool to sense when the child is about to urinate. BedwettingStore Sources: Glicklich, L. (1951). Special Reviews: An Historical Account of Enuresis. Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics. (8)6: 859-876 • Gill, D. (1994). Enuresis through the Ages. Journal of Pediatric Nephrology. 9: 120-122 • Wright, L.B. & Tinling, M. (1963). The Great American Gentleman: William Byrd of Westover in Virginia: His Secret Diary for the Years 1709-1712. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Retrieved August 30, 2012, from http://www.babel.hathitrust.org/ • Schultheiss, Dirk (2000). A Brief History of Urinary Incontinence and its Treatment. Incontinence: Basics & Evaluation. 1. Paris, Health Publications, 19-34. Michael A. (1974). An Historical Account of Nocturnal Enuresis and its Treatment. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. (1975) 68(7): 443-445 • Parnell, G.C. (Jan. 11, 1902). A Suggestion for the Treatment of Enuresis in Females. The British Medical www.bedwettingstore.com 1-800-214-9605 • Salmon, Journal, 1, 72. Published by: BMJ Publishing Group. Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20270832 • Pfaundler, H.M. (1904). Demonstrationeines Apparates zur selbsttatigen Signalisierung stattgehabter Bettnassung. • Marson, F.G.W. (May 14, 1955). Posterior Pituitary Snuff Treatment of Nocturnal Enuresis. The British Medical Journal, 1, 1194-1195. Published by: BMJ Publishing Group. Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20363561 • Forsythe, W.I. & Butler, R.J. (1989). Fifty years of enuretic alarms. Archives of Disease in Childhood. 64: 879-885 • Ambrose, G. (1983). Hypnotherapy for enuresis. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. 76(12): 1080 • Houts, Arthur C. (1999). Commentary: Treatments for Enuresis: Criteria, Mechanisms, and Health Care Policy. Journal of Pediatric Psychology. (2000) 25(4): 219-224 Yamaguchi, M. (1999, April 20). Machine lets beds stay dry. The Spokesman-Review, p. A4 Bedwetting Treatments Through the Ages HISTORY OF BEDWETTING TREATMENTS 1550 BC 77 AD The earliest record of enuresis in literature is in the Papyrus Ebers, an ancient Egyptian medical document. It suggested a mixture of juniper berries, cypress leaves, and beer as a cure. During the 1st century, Gaius Plinius Secundus, or better known as Pliny the Elder, a Roman writer and philosopher, recommended that children eat boiled mice with their food. 1600s 1700s 1800s |1900s |1950 1642 1709 19th - 20th Century Belladonna used to temporarily "paralyze"the bladder muscles. Bits of pig bladder sprinkled onto the child's bed. Forced to drink urine for wetting 1870 1902 1956 the bed. Small dilator used to rub silver nitrate onto the urethral canal of bedwetting girls. Popular bed wetting treat- ment in the late 1800s (+) Collodion applied to tip of penis. The child had to rip out the "cork" when he needed to urinate. 1747 Dr. Gordon Ambrose Penile clamp through mid-1900s. suggested using hypno- therapy, or hypnosis, to treat bedwetting children. fastened to the TREATMENTS IN male urethra. CULTURES 1904 1979 NAVAHO 1881 UT TERRITORY CO The first "bell & pad" alarm was created by Dr. Meinhard Pfaundler, a German physician, who placed a urine-sensitive pad, made of a zinc-copper plated iron, under the child's bottom. Dr. Hilal Malem created the first body-worn alarm for general use. Malem Medical is now the world's 1947 Two sponges are connected by a battery, and when sponges become wet, alarm sounded. largest bedwetting alarm manufacturer. Navaho tribe believed that children would not NM "soil" the nest, if they stood naked over a 1925 1989 burning bird's nest. In the early 1920s, doctors began using posterior pituitary snuff, powder that is inhaled through the nose. Desmopressin acetate (DDAVP), a man-made form of vasopressin, approved by FDA for bedwetting treat- ment. Given as a nasal spray, and then in 1998, as a tablet. Pre-1970s 1938 AFRICA In Nigeria, frogs were tied to a child's penis, so that the loud croak In 2007 nasal spray received Black Box warning after hyponatremic seizures. would scare the child from urinating. 1999 AAW A 1938 Japanese urologist and a telephone maker created a $1.5 million electronic alarm that measured a sleeping child's brainwaves and monitored the bladder with Hobart and Mowrer are credited for the first "bell & pad" alarm in the U.S. Similar to Pfaundler's model, West African people would pour ashes and water onto the child's head. an alarm sounded when urine closed the circuit on the bronze mesh screen. a stethoscope-like tool to sense when the child is about to urinate. BedwettingStore Sources: Glicklich, L. (1951). Special Reviews: An Historical Account of Enuresis. Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics. (8)6: 859-876 • Gill, D. (1994). Enuresis through the Ages. Journal of Pediatric Nephrology. 9: 120-122 • Wright, L.B. & Tinling, M. (1963). The Great American Gentleman: William Byrd of Westover in Virginia: His Secret Diary for the Years 1709-1712. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Retrieved August 30, 2012, from http://www.babel.hathitrust.org/ • Schultheiss, Dirk (2000). A Brief History of Urinary Incontinence and its Treatment. Incontinence: Basics & Evaluation. 1. Paris, Health Publications, 19-34. Michael A. (1974). An Historical Account of Nocturnal Enuresis and its Treatment. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. (1975) 68(7): 443-445 • Parnell, G.C. (Jan. 11, 1902). A Suggestion for the Treatment of Enuresis in Females. The British Medical www.bedwettingstore.com 1-800-214-9605 • Salmon, Journal, 1, 72. Published by: BMJ Publishing Group. Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20270832 • Pfaundler, H.M. (1904). Demonstrationeines Apparates zur selbsttatigen Signalisierung stattgehabter Bettnassung. • Marson, F.G.W. (May 14, 1955). Posterior Pituitary Snuff Treatment of Nocturnal Enuresis. The British Medical Journal, 1, 1194-1195. Published by: BMJ Publishing Group. Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20363561 • Forsythe, W.I. & Butler, R.J. (1989). Fifty years of enuretic alarms. Archives of Disease in Childhood. 64: 879-885 • Ambrose, G. (1983). Hypnotherapy for enuresis. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. 76(12): 1080 • Houts, Arthur C. (1999). Commentary: Treatments for Enuresis: Criteria, Mechanisms, and Health Care Policy. Journal of Pediatric Psychology. (2000) 25(4): 219-224 Yamaguchi, M. (1999, April 20). Machine lets beds stay dry. The Spokesman-Review, p. A4