Pediatricians of the Department of health of Arnaldus promote health education.
-enuresis has been treated by a pediatrician at a training course organized by the Spanish Association of primary care Pediatrics L´Eliana
Valencia, March 2012.- The Department Valencia – Arnau of Vilanova – Lliria pediatricians encourage daily health education among the population.
Through training courses and support in the research clinic and teaching, Pediatrics of the health centres in the Department responsible for form every day to provide the best assistance ”, said the Director of the elementary Department.
In this sense, pediatrician Elizabeth Úbeda of the health center of L´Eliana and co-author of the bedwetting Guide for primary care, which is included in the catalog of clinical guidelines of the national health system, she has recently taught a workshop on enuresis in a course organized by the Spanish Association of Pediatrics (pediatricians).
Is a very common condition though infradiagnosticado. It is children that still wetting the bed from the age of 5 ”, points out Dr. Úbeda.
Although sometimes it disappears with age spontaneously, in many cases it persists and causes psychological disorders in children and adolescents who suffer from. Experts advise parents to avoid punishments, drinks with caffeine, restrict water intake before going to sleep and go to the bathroom before bedtime and consult with your pediatrician. To address the problem, it is very important to assess the type of bed wetting, its gravity and the impact it causes on the patient and the family in the interview. Usually bedwetting can be solved from the primary care consultation ”, indicates.
Pediatrics at Espanya
Unlike other European countries, where there are no pediatricians in primary care, the health of the child population in our country has improved in recent years, being the quality of life of the population between 8 and 15 years of 61,81, 11 points above the European average ”, said DRA. Begoña DomÃnguez, President of the pediatricians.
According to the data provided in the course by Dr Dominguez, in Spain exercised as primary care pediatricians 6.215 professionals, making a total of 34.7 million consultations in 2009.
