Limited caffeine consumption as first-line treatment in managing primary monosymptomatic enuresis in children: how effective is it? A randomised clinical trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Evidence about the negative caffeine effect on enuresis in children remains understudied or poorly understood. The study aimed to investigate the effect of caffeine restriction on the improvement and severity of primary monosymptomatic nocturnal enuresis (PMNE).

Design

Randomised clinical trial.

Setting

Two referral hospitals in Tehran, Iran, from 2021 to 2023.

Patients

Five hundred and thirty-four PMNE children aged 6-15 years (each group 267).

Interventions

Amount of caffeine consumption was recorded by the feed frequency questionnaire and was estimated by Nutrition 4 software. Caffeine consumption per day in the intervention group was <30 mg, and in the control group, 80-110 mg. All children were asked to return 1 month later to check the re

SUBMITTER: Rezakhaniha S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10124248 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature