By the age of five, 80 to 85 percent of children are dry at night (meaning not that they do not pee, but that if they do, they wake to use the bathroom).15 Doctors generally do not worry about lack of nighttime dryness until a child is six years old. Older than that, it is common to begin to consider some interventions—waking the child to pee, limiting fluids before bed, a wetting alarm. These continued issues affect perhaps 10 percent of children (mostly boys) and nearly all of them eventually resolve.
