Recent trends in management of noctural enuresis

ABSTRACT

There are many different treatment modalities for nocturnal enuresis options of treatment include behavior modification and Pharmacotherapy. The latter include a scope of drugs like 1-deamino-8-D arginine vasopressin [DDAVP], tricyclic antidepressants anticholinergics and other drugs. Is to study the efficacy of sympathomimetics [e.g. ephedrine] in the treatment of nocturnal enuresis. Two hundred patients selected after complete history, examination, laboratory, radiological and urodynamic study, those patients were given ephedrine HCL according to their age for 2 months and followed for 6 months. Complete dry bed 172 patients [86%] within the first 2 weeks of treatment and the number increased to reach 189 patients [92%] after 2 months of treatment. Eight patients [4%] complained of relapse after 3 months of stoppage of treatment and the number increased after 6 months of stoppage of treatment to 13 patients [6.5%]. Alpha sympathomimetics [ephedrine HCL] is a cheap, simple, easy, effective and safe method for nocturnal enuresis treatment