Enuresis: Symptoms, Complaints, Signs

The following symptoms and complaints may indicate enuresis (wetting):

Bladder dysfunction (bladder dysfunction).

  • Dysuria – pain during urination.
  • Daytime wetting (enuresis diurna)
  • Holding maneuver
  • Imperative urge to urinate
  • Micturition postponement
  • Pollakiuriaurge to urinate frequently without increased urination.
  • Stakkatomiktion (urination with repeated interruption of the urine stream).

Overactive bladder

  • Frequent nocturnal wetting (enuresis nocturna).

Dyscoordinated micturition

  • Weakened urinary stream
  • Stakkatomiktion
  • Frequent urinary tract infections (UTIs)
  • Fecal impaction disorders

Micturition postponement

  • Holding maneuver during micturition
  • Decreasing bladder filling sensation and contractile force of the bladder muscles.

Daytime symptoms of non-monosymptomatic enuresis and nonorganic (functional) bladder dysfunction (bladder dysfunction)

Urinary retention disorder
  • Urinary incontinence (inability to retain urine).
  • Imperative urination (urge to urinate that cannot be suppressed or controlled).
  • Holding maneuver
  • Micturition postponement
  • Pollakisuria (frequent urination)
  • Deviation of micturition frequency from the norm
  • Deviation of bladder capacity / micturition volumes from the norm.
Urinary dysfunction
  • Delayed initiation of micturition
  • Micturition with abdominal press
  • Weakened urine stream
  • Interrupted micturition
  • Stakkatomiktion (stuttering urination).