My daughter who is four has sleep apnea and regardless of how much we limit her fluid intake?
Monday, January 26th, 2009 at
1:20 am
jerry w asked:
She has accidents in the night. how can we get rid of the smell other than spray with freebreeze and clean the sheets non stop.
She has accidents in the night. how can we get rid of the smell other than spray with freebreeze and clean the sheets non stop.
About her sleep apnea she is having her tonsils removed soon. like i said we try and try but the accidents happen. is there any soluntion to get rid of the smell?
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Filed under: Sleep Apnea
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Have you tried just putting a protective cover over the bed? I suffered from sleep apnea also as a child, and that is what my parents did for me. As far as I remember my room didn’t smell, and I didn’t have my surgery till I was sixl, so I’d think I would.
Put a plastic mattress cover on the bed and then a cloth cover so it isn’t uncomfortable for her. Then you can just wash the sheets and cover and it shouldn’t affect the mattress. Also at four years old you could use Pull ups for her to sleep in at night, they are like underwear.
I don’t know how sleep apnea is related to bed wetting, but when my daughter used the wet the bed, the only thing that helped was getting her up to *** in the toilet. She went to bed at 8 pm and I took her right before I went at 11pm. This kept her dry through the night. It was the ONLY way to keep not only her room, but the whole house from smelling like ***!
I agree with Tina about the mattress pads–that is what I do on my 4 yr. old daughter’s bed. I don’t know the connection between sleep apnea and bed wetting! My oldest daughter (9 yrs.) had sleep apnea and had her tonsils/adenoids removed and it was resolved immediately!! But she never wet the bed. My 4 yr old (who does not have apnea) wears diapers at night bc she pees so much while she’s sleeping. She is potty trained completely during the day, but wets alot at night. She wears the huggies overnites, yet she still leaks out frequently! Since you already have *** stains/smells, i recommend trying “Nature’s Miracle”. You get it at Petsmart or Petco–it is for urine stains and smells and works on ANY pee, whether its human or animal. Then I would get the mattress pads like Tina suggested. (Nature’s Miracle costs about $10 for a fairly big spray bottle)
Some good suggestions here. But how about just putting on pull-ups? They’re made in fairly large sizes for four year olds.
I’m guessing that the surgeon will also remove your daughter’s adenoids, as they are more frequently the cause of sleep apnea than tonsils at this age. (But not always!) And yes, there is a definite relationship between bed wetting and sleep apnea.
There are alarms for bed wetters, but in my experience they were not effective before the age of six.