How to use buzzer alarms to cure bed-wetting.

Nocturnal enuresis is a common and distressing condition for which many different treatments may be helpful.' Although general measures, including an energetic, confident, and sympathetic doctor, are of prime importance, the enuresis alarm is easily the most successful specific treatment available. Given the careful analyses of its use,' and the helpful advice that has been published about its use,3 it is sad that doctors interested in enuresis continue to see many children who have been issued with enuresis alarms without adequate instruction, supervision, or help. The family have lost faith unnecessarily in what should be a successful treatment. I will therefore try to provide a practical guide to the use of enuresis alarms for children who wet the bed.