My son is five years five months, and a week ago started having to urinate frequently during the day. He still only wakes once a night to use the toilet, but sometimes will go every 15 minutes or so during the day. He says it does not burn or hurt to pee and I have watched his urine output the last few days and he does pee each time he goes, but it is not an excessive amount. He feels fine, no fever, no pain on voiding so for now I am ruling out a UTI.
I have been reading online about frequent daytime urination in small children and I have discovered the condition called Pollakiuria, which is common in kids 4-6 and usually brought on by stress. I am deciding rather or not to call our GP, but I am not the type to run to the doctor for every small episode, I think it causes more stress in most cases. If this goes on more than a few more days or so I will call, as I am a bit concerned though, because all parents know about childhood diabetes starting around ages 7-8 and frequent urination is one of the symptoms. Anyway...I am ruling out diabetes for the next several days just because he is not experiencing excessive thirst or hunger, does not void a large amount of urine each time and is definitely not losing any weight!
The articles I have read say that Pollakiuria is more common in children than UTIs but I have never come across this condition before and was just wondering if anyone else here on the forum has heard of it?
