NOCTURNAL ENURESIS AKA BEDWETTING.

I received this in the mail this morning with a request:

Sir Zorro,

Can you do me a favor. The following piece below reminds me of a blanket drenched in piss. If it is not air-dried the odor can be rather nauseating.

No mention is made of the source of this. I gather that it must be a comment on some blog and the subject, on conjecture, is on bedwetting.

It is an accepted fact that children, aged five until seven, have never been consistently dry at night. This usually occurs when the body makes more urine overnight than the bladder can hold and the child does not wake up when the bladder is full. The child's brain has not learned to respond to the signal that the bladder is full. It is not the child's or the parent's fault in sleep. There are many reasons that children wet the bed after being fully toilet trained. It might be physical, emotional. Physical causes are rare, but may include birth defects of the genitourinary tract, infections of the urinary tract, or diabetes.

However, pampers are readily available today and blankets are seldom soiled. But bedwetting, I am reliably informed, occur amongst adults who are emotionally distressed or disturbed. Of course weak bladders could be a cause, and usually adult pampers are always advisable. But even some medical doctors preach about the use of adult pampers but do not practice what they preach. As such we have soiled blankets and bed linens like this one below:

To Dr Mahathir, please don’t listen to all these racist fools calling you names. I am Indian and I am proud of you having Indian blood as well. Those giving all the racists remarks wont do so if you got some Chinese blood or white fells genes. I recall that we never had all the problems we are facing now when you were the prime minister. These buffoons above don’t understand that what you are talking about is the balance of power. I don’t think Malaysia will be a very clean and fair country if the DAP were to take over. Look what they did to Penang, all the Indian arears are going to be demolished and hotels are going to be built in those grounds where people homes once stood. And one funny this is I don’t see any guy or politician from the opposition making any noise about it. All are marrying. Development they say. My ass. As a doctor myself I think it is not you but your successors who failed you. Starting with that Badawi who could not even control his own ministers. I wish you can become PM again and solve all our problems starting with the rotting education system. Thank you. Your fan and fellow medical colleague, Dr Gopi M Krishnan.

No, this urine soiled bed linen and blanket will not be sun-dried in our little effort to save our environment. It needs to be in the incinerator. No amount of our good sunlight can eradicate the stench, especially adult urine. Sorry, Gopi. Mega sales on at Ikea, I hear.