A few weeks ago, I wrote in about my three year old's excessive peeing and frequent peeing accidents. I was worried she might be showing symptoms of diabetes. We did have her evaluated, we took her blood sugar and we had a urine test done. We ended up doing a glucose tolerance test, which thankfully came back normal. Just yesterday we had her urine checked again, and a culture is being done to 100% rule out a UTI (which was also not detected last time), as well as a calcium test. We're doing this because she is STILL peeing her pants nearly every time she needs to goes. She doesn't empty her bladder in her pants, but they are wet enough that they need to be changed - and she still goes on the toilet right after. She has been potty trained since May at the latest, and mid-summer, we stopped taking extra clothes on outings because she rarely, if ever, had accidents. Before this all started the last few weeks, she hadn't had an accident in months. Not at night (no pull-up or any protection), not during the day, not during an outing. So for this to be happening so much now is really strange. At this point, I'm hoping for a UTI after all because that would be the answer, and we can get it taken care of. Has anyone experienced this type of thing? I know kids regress, but it's been so long and it's so frequent, that I don't think that's the issue. Even her doctor thinks this is abnormal. Any advice or insight would be appreciated. We won't know the culture results until Monday, so I'm just a little anxious :) Thanks for your kind words, moms!
I should have mentioned that there have not been any recent major life changes for our family or for her. No pregnancy or baby, no move, no death, no daycare switch. The only thing that has happened since was that she had her first haircut, but this was absolutely not at all a trauma for her. She sat there nicely, she showed it off, she smiled. No tears, no fighting us about it, none of that. She watched her older sister do it first too, so that was not an ordeal. Otherwise, no changes. This is another reason, the accidents are freaking us out - ha!
Sound like our first bout of a UTI. Accidents all the time. Negative test. It wasn't until the UTI progressed into a kidney infection and 6 days of fever they tested again and it was quite positive! However, every time after, the UTI tests in office (and the ones from the dollar store) came up positive right away.
If you are anxious, you can get some tests at the dollar store and retest. But I am sure this will be worked out!!
Have their been any major drastic changes in her life recently? Perhaps such as moving houses, births or deaths in the family, or something of that nature? It could just be that she's adjusting to something and the accidents are a sub-conscious side effect.
Aside from that, I'd say the odds of a UTI being present, even though you got a negative test---is your next best bet. I know girls are more prone to UTI's than boys due to anatomy differences, so that could very much be the case in this instance.
Regardless, I wish you the best of luck in getting through it! No matter what the cause, you can at least have some measure of comfort in knowing that this is in all likelihood just a short term phase that will eventually come and go.
Hang in there!
Did she recently have a growth spurt? One of my kids would lose control for about a month or so after major growth spurts. I don't really understand why, but I know that it happened for several years after he was 100% day and night potty trained. It always resolved on its own (although not without causing some stress for him and me, because he was upset when it happened).
Think of the brain as a huge blob of stuff covered with windows.
Windows open and windows close. As kids start and stop phases other things often happen. Sometimes the forget how to go to the bathroom all of a sudden, sometimes it how to do something else. That window is still there and they can see through it but it sort of on the back burner for a brief few weeks.
So the chances are she's working on something else mentally right now, she's wiring part of her brain for something else, and she will be back on track very soon.
