Wetting the bed is common in young children. If your child has this problem they are not alone. You will need to take your child to a physician for this problem to see if bed-wetting is an underlying medical condition.
A medical condition is not always to blame for bed wetting though. Sometimes bed-wetting can come from behavioral and emotional problems. It is hard to tell.
You usually have to go with trial and error. If one thing does not work then you need to try something else. This can become very frustrating for children and parents alike. Acupressure therapy is a new treatment for bed-wetting [How to stop bed-wetting problem]. It is something that you and your child may wish to consider.
Acupressure
Acupressure is a technique developed by the Chinese. Its purpose is to regulate the balance of the human body. This type of therapy helps the meridians and circulation in your blood. Acupressure has been around for many years.
The Chinese believe in qi or”chee”. Qi is the belief that energy flows thru the body in an inner network of pathways that are full of energy. They believe that if the Qi has a blockage, it can cause you to have pain.
Acupressure professionals think that your body’s organs will not function as good if they do not get enough energy.
Acupressure Techniques
- Use your hand and lightly grasp your child’s muscles that are located below their belly button. You will need to do this ten times. Following this procedure, you can use your palm and softly rub counterclockwise around the belly button until their belly button becomes warm to them.
- Take your thumb and softly push and knead at a point on their body that is a little above their waist. You should do this treatment about two inches apart on both sides of their spine.
- Finger acupressure treatment is also a good thing to do. What you need to do is to use the ball part of your thumb to massage the outside part of your child’s thumb up and down. Then use your thumb to softly push on the ball of their thumb all the way down.
- Lastly, you will want to use the ball of your thumb to softly push on your child’s little finger. Go all the way up the finger to do it properly. All of these techniques should be repeated100 times each.
Chinese Views
The Chinese believe bed-wetting to be a water metabolism disorder. In the Chinese culture the spleen, kidneys, and lungs are the three organs that make up water metabolism.
Chinese think of bed-wetting as loss of energy in the lung, kidney or spleen. In traditional Chinese medicine, the heart along with the liver could also play a part in bed-wetting.
Credentials
You will always want to take your child to a licensed acupressure professional. Licensed professionals in the art of acupressure need to know what the different techniques are. They need to care about the health and well-being of your child.
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