This is your alarm. It can help you cure your bed-wetting only if you use it correctly. Remember, the main purpose of the alarm is to help you get up during the night ans use the toilet. The alarm won't work unless you listen for it carefully and respond to it quickly. Better yet, get up before the alarm goes off.
Hook up the alarm system by yourself. Trigger the buzzer a few times by touching the moisture sensors with a wet finger and practice going to the bathroom as you will do if it goes off during the night.
Have a night-light or flashlight near your bed so it will be easy to see what you are doing when the alarm sounds. Turn on the night-light.
Go through your self-awakening pep talk at bed-time. Try to "beat the buzzer." Wake up when your bladder feels full but before any urine leaks out. If the buzzer does go off, try to wake up and stop urinating at the first moment that you think you hear the alarm (even if you think you are hearing it in a dream).
As soon as you hear the alarm, jump out of bed and stand up. After you are standing and awake, turn off the buzzer by removing the metal strip from the little pocket in your underwear (if you have a Wet-Stop) or disconnect the clips (if you have a Nytone) and dry them off.
Hurry to the bathroom. Empty your bladder to see how much urine you were able to hold back.
Put on dry underwear and pajamas, and reconnect the alarm. Put a dry towel over the wet spot on your bed. Remind yourself to get up before the alarm buzzes next time and review your plan.
In the morning, write on your calendar "dry" (no alarm), "wet spot" (you got up after the alarm went off), or "wet" (you didn't get up).
Use the alarm every night until you go 3 or 4 weeks without bed-wetting. This usually takes 2 to 3 months, so try to be persistent.
While using the alarm, it's very important that you also practice the following self-awakening program at bedtime. you are trying to teach yourself to awaken during the night and use the toilet when your bladder feels full. Until you learn how to do this, you won't be dry.
Lie on your bed with your eyes closed
Pretend it's the middled of the night
Pretend your bladder is full
Pretend it's starting to hurt
Pretend it's trying to wake you up
Pretend it's saying: "Get up before it's too late."
Then run to the bathroom and empty your bladder
Remind yourself to get up like this during the night
Parent's role with Bed-Wetting Alarms
If your child doesn't awaken immediately to the sound of the buzzer, he needs your help. You may need to be involved every night for the first 2 to 3 weeks.
Go to your child's room as quickly as you can. Turn on the light and say loudly, "Get out of bed and stand up."
If that doesn't work, get your child to a sitting position and run a cold washcloth over his face to bring him out of his deep sleep.
Only after your child is standing, remind him to turn off the alarm. By all means, don't turn off the buzzer for him. Your child has to learn to carry out this step for himself.
Make sure your child is wide awake and walks into the bathroom before you leave him. If necessary, ask him questions to help awaken him.
Your goal is to help your child awaken immediately and get out of bed when the buzzer goes off. Phase out of your child's alarm program as soon as possible. Going to bed with the radio off, going to bed at a reasonable hour, and using a night-light can help your child respond faster to the alarm.
Below is an instructional video, from The Bedwetting Store website, on how to use a standard Malem Bedwetting Alarm.
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the alarm is to help you get up during the night ans use the toilet. The alarm won't work unless you listen for it carefully and respond to it quickly. Better yet, get up before the alarm goes off.