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Is it normal for adults to occasionally wet the bed?

November 21, 2005

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Although bed-wetting is fairly common in children, who usually grow out of it, it's much less common in adults. That said, doctors from the Mayo Clinic estimated in a paper published nine years ago that as many as 1.5 to 3 percent of the adult population had ''persistent nocturnal enuresis," or chronic nighttime bed-wetting. (Full article: 270 words)