[Dry bed--but how? A follow-up study of children with enuresis treated with a bed alarm].

At follow-up, 29 young adults treated previously (ages 7-14 years) for nocturnal enuresis by means of conditioning, mostly with a bed alarm, showed no excess of mental abnormalities, including psychosomatic symptoms. Most of the probands recollected the treatment as positive and effective. It is concluded that conditioning is effective in the treatment of nocturnal enuresis and that it does not seem to leave any undesirable after-effects. Nothing seems to indicate that omission of more intensive, conflict-solving psychotherapy has implied any disadvantage for the patient. Thus, the bed alarm method can still be recommended as the treatment of first choice.