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Practitioners across the world have used this effective treatment for many years, and it is the
benchmarked technique due to its high level of success. Practitioners will coach the children and
support the parents throughout the program to ensure the most successful outcome, and to
minimize the chances of relapse.
The Malem Medical product has as alarm control unit and this is attached to an Easy-Clip sensor.
The sensor is situated near where the first urine is produced. The sensor is clipped on the outside
of the child’s underpants. It has been designed so that the urine goes into the cloth of the pants
and a minimum of urine will set off the alarm once it hits the sensors in the easy clip. Also see
The alarm has been designed to ring at a high frequency tone, which will help arouse the sleep
child once the sensor has been wet, simultaneously a light in the alarm will switch on, to help the
child to locate the alarm in the dark.
The aim is to get the child awake as soon as possible, get out
of the bed and get them to switch the alarm off and finish urinating in the toilet.
There are 8
different sounds to reduce the child getting used to the same sound. It can be fixed at one sound
if required or a message recorded. Please ask your practitioner.
It takes a number of steps to achieve dryness - initial assessment, use of body worn alarm
and then over learning to prevent relapse.
Children may become dry within 6-8 weeks.
It is important that prior to treatment that children have a medical check up to ensure that
they have no other medical condition.
In summary the Malem Ultimate Alarm has
Loud high pitched buzzer to arouse the child and LED to show where the alarm is to press the
re-set button.
Durable Easy-Clip sensor that will be in contact with the urine to trigger the alarm.
You can assess progress, as you will see the size of the wet patches on the bed getting
smaller, the alarm being triggered later or see the estimated time how long it takes before the
child turns off the alarm to get shorter. Use the Dry Nights Record for this.
The child has a normal sleep routine and they are free to roll around in the bed with the alarm
system.
The simple operation of the alarm is easy for the child to switch off.
