I'm hoping someone else may have experienced this.
My 3 year old just started preschool 3 days a week. On his second day of school he had to use the restroom to pee every half hour for the rest of the day. I took him into urgi kids and they said he did not have any infections, took a uti test and nothing came back. The dr suggested he was probably constipated and that is what is causing the frequent urination. He did have a small bowel movement last night, but nothing big. We are on day three of the frequent urination and today he went back to preschool and he is now having to go to the bathroom every 10 minutes. He is going into the drs today. Has anyone experienced this with their preschooler?
He just came back from the doctors, and he doesn't have diabetes. They checked his urine and there's nothing there either. They said he's healthy and to keep an eye on him over the weekend to see if anything changes. I did an online search of some ideas of what this could be. Has anyone heard of Pollakiuria (frequent daytime urination syndrome). I guess it's brought on by stressful situations. There is no other symptoms. If the whole preschool experience is causing him a lot of stress, I don't know how we will get him to not be stressed about preschool.
Thanks everyone for the advice. I am more and more convinced it's the Pollakiuria. He seemed worried and we talked over the weekend that he thought we would forget him at school and that he would potty in his shorts. I tried reassuring him that this would never happen. I also put him on a potty schedule. I let him know he could potty every hour if he needed too and he did great. We gave him a structure and it seemed to help him. I don't bring up going potty unless he has to go before the hour is up. But its only happened a few times. We had a playdate with a friend yesterday afternoon and he didn't ask to go potty for 2 1/2 hours. Let's just hope he can get through school tomorrow. Luckily it's only 3 hours!
I would chalk it up to nerves and possibly constipation. My daughter got so backed up back in Feb. that we literally spent the whole day in the bathroom. As soon as she'd walk out she'd feel like she had to go again.
If it doesn't change when he has a bowel movement -- I would make an appointment for a pediatric urologists. They can do simple noninvasive tests (ultrasound, retention tests, etc) that will show you how the kidneys are functionng
Did they test his sugar?
They may want to test your son for urinary reflux which causes irritation of the bladder and is not uncommon in young boys. Also have him rechecked for UTI.
YES! Just went through the same thing with my daughter and it lasted a couple months. So crazy. Long story short, she WAS in fact constipated even though she had been having bowel movements. Her system just wasn't clearing out. We do a capful of miralax once a day (she's 4) and it did the trick in like 24 hours...maybe less. Hope your answer is as easy.
Yes. With my 2nd son, whenever he had frequent urination or noctural enuresis (bedwetting), we'd take him to get adjusted by our chiropractor and it was always his sacrum (from running, jumping and falling). Literally night and day for months after an adjustment. Www.icpa4kids.org
This could be many things including just nerves -- You're not there with him at preschool so they could be reporting that he's going to the bathroom when actually he's going in yhere but not really producing urine; he just feels jumpy and that makes his insides tense as if he needs to pee. This would seem pretty normal for a kid starting preschool for the first time and should end as he gets used to things....HOWEVER....
Yes, do get him checked again in case the first test did not find a UTI that was getting started. Not all tests show everything the first time!
And if he is both actually peeing a lot, combined with an increased thirst and desire to drink a lot, please take him right away to his regular pediatrician (as opposed to an urgent care place) and have him tested for diabetes. A classic symptom of diabetes is a lot of thirst and the need to urinate a lot. While it's highly likely that there's some other explanation like a UTI or nervousness, be sure to rule out diabetes if it's not a UTI. It cannot hurt for the dr. to test him while he's getting the second UTI test, in fact.
Please do not try to "home test" for blood sugar by using an over-the-counter blood test kit. These are marketed to diabetics who know how to use them to monitor sugar but are definitely not for diagnosis. I've seen folks on here advocate usiing these kits for an initial diagnosis on kids and it's horrible advice!
I see you are on a path to getting some answers (I hope). Does he seem stressed about school otherwise? Our daughter has been potty trained for about a year now, but she just started using public potties in July. It was a huge step for her to use a public potty. Now we can't get her to stop. One night at the mall we managed to visit the potty FOUR times (and yes, she peed every single flipping time). My husband and I were at a loss as to how we could get her to quit without causing problems for her (or ourselves) later on. I mentioned it to a couple of coworkers and they said their kids did the same thing.
Maybe your son likes the smaller potty that they have there? We are taking the "say nothing and hope it goes away" tactic, but if it continues to be a problem, we'll go with a positive reward system for only going once during a shopping trip or whatever.
