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@CatchAFallingStar: my 7 year old has bouts of this, and it comes and goes. We’ve found it related to stress or new situations (starting school, etc). He doesn’t go at all during the night and it may be frequent daytime and then it’ll go away for a few months, etc. We were told to let him go as often as possible and not bring attention to it or make a big deal out of it. Here is the name we were given:

Pollakiuria
Pollakiuria, also called frequent daytime urination syndrome, is a common although not very well-known cause of frequent urination in young children. Most common between the ages of 4 and 6 years, these children pass small amounts of urine about 10 times to 30 times each day.

They might also wake up at night to urinate. With this diagnosis, your child should have no other symptoms and a normal urinalysis. Although sometimes related to stress, no specific trigger is found for many children with pollakiuria and it often goes away in a few weeks or months without any treatment.

@MommySLP: I didn’t know there was a name for it! My niece had this around 4-5 and it was stressful for them but like others it wasn’t anything serious and it resolved over time.

My five year old had this happen at the beginning of the year. It turns out he was constipated and the poop was pushing on his bladder. He was having bowel movements regularly so we had no idea. After cutting down on dairy and adding a probiotic with fiber his peeing went back to normal.

My kids do this when they have growth spurts. We also get a lot more accidents at night when they are growing. It comes and goes and we just try to not make a big deal out of it.

Also, general constipation can be linked to more accidents or more pee urges. The colon can be overfilled and crowd out / squeeze the bladder. Kids should poop daily and the consistency should be like a 3-4 on the Bristol stool chart (google images for that one, yuck)