Abstract
By the age of three years, barring the occasional ‘accident’, the great majority of children are dry by day and by four years they are dry at night too. Failure to gain urine continence either by day or night is known as enuresis. If continence has never been gained the enuresis is known as primary and if it has been gained and apparently lost later it is known as secondary. If the enuresis occurs only at night it is known as nocturnal and if only during the day it is known as diurnal. Diurnal enuresis is generally accompanied by nocturnal enuresis, but purely nocturnal enuresis occurs frequently.
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