Punch Newspapers Sections Published 9 May 2021 Medical experts say parents punishing or abusing their children who bedwet are rather worsening the problem and exposing them to more stress. The experts, mainly paediatricians, say parents should rather be concerned is a child who has previously attained bladder control for more than six months suddenly starts bedwetting without any obvious sickness. According to the physicians, although the age of achieving bladder control varies among children, bedwetting beyond age five or seven is a problem that requires immediate attention. Speaking in an interview with PUNCH HealthWise, a Consultant Paediatrician, Nephrology Division at the Federal Medical Centre, Katsina, Dr. Abdurrazzaq Alege, states that bedwetting is not a disease on its own, though it might be “a window to an underlying disease.”