The ERIC Helpline Podcast: for families with children affected by bowel and bladder conditions

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The ERIC Helpline Podcast: for families with children affected by bowel and bladder conditions

Informal and judgement-free discussions about everything from bedwetting, daytime wetting, chronic constipation, soiling and other toileting problems. We tackle questions from parents & carers, with experts from the ERIC, The Children's Bowel & Bladder Charity providing solutions and management strategies for these common childhood conditions.

Episodes

  1. FEB 11

    Poo withholding - part 1

    In the first of a two-part series, Sarah, Head of Family Services, and Continence expert Louise, answer your questions and offer information on how to support children who are withholding their poo and encourage them to poo on the potty or toilet.

    44 min

  2. 07/13/2023

    Living with a chronic bladder condition, Joe's story

    Joe was born with a bladder condition. And further surgery as a child affected how his bowel worked. He has faced many challenges growing up and wants to share how he navigated his way through life at school, to being a teenager, and then a student at university. Joe shares the things he has learned along the way, how he has had to accept his disability and how it has become part of who he is as a person.

    21 min

  3. 07/31/2021

    Episode 10: Daytime bladder problems Part 2

    In a follow up to episode 8, ERIC Nurse Brenda Cheer explains what parents and carers need to do if their child's bladder problem hasn't been resolved by working on the four steps to a healthy bladder that were explained in Part 1. They cover what parents and carers should do if bladder problems still persist.

    19 min
  4. World Bedwetting Day 2021

    05/25/2021

    World Bedwetting Day 2021

    A joint podcast hosted by ERIC, The Children's Bowel and Bladder Charity and Bladder and Bowel UK. Alina from ERIC and Davina, a Children's Specialist Nurse for Bladder and Bowel UK chat to Alex, the parent of a six year old boy who wets the bed. They discuss why it's so important to seek help from a healthcare professional if children continue to be wet at night after the age of 5 and what treatments are available.

    25 min

  5. 04/28/2021

    Daytime bladder problems Part 1

    Brenda, ERIC Nurse and Paediatric Specialist Continence Nurse talks to Alina about a 7 year old child who has started wetting during the day. They explore the reasons behind wetting accidents like these and how families can help their children to manage their bladder.

    16 min

  6. 03/12/2021

    Helping disabled children achieve continence

    Alina talks to Fiona Boorman a Paediatric Bladder & Bowel Specialist Nurse with 40 years' experience and a passion for helping children with additional needs to toilet train.  Fiona started working with disabled children at 12, when she was a volunteer in a children’s home and later in a Scope Grammar School. This led her to a career in nursing children, initially at Great Ormond Street, London. 10 years as a Special School Nurse got her hooked on continence. She realised that too many children were not given the opportunity to achieve this fundamental skill but with the desire, joined-up working and some crazy ideas, she could make it work for most. Fiona went on to undertake both Adult and Paediatric Continence modules.

    15 min

  7. 12/15/2020

    Disimpaction explained by a Paediatric Specialist Continence Nurse

    In a follow up to Episode 3 on chronic constipation and disimpaction, Alina talks to Brenda, the ERIC nurse to ask the more detailed questions we get about this subject to our helpline. Explanations by Brenda include: knowing whether a child needs to be cleared out, how macrogol laxative actually work, liaising with your doctor and what happens next after disimpaction.

    35 min

  8. 11/11/2020

    Managing toileting issues at school - tips for parents on talking to their child's teacher.

    Alina talks to Melissa Yapp a speech pathologist and special education teacher in New South Wales, Australia. Based on her wide experience of working in schools, Melissa gives practical advice to help parents raise their child's bowel or bladder problem with the class teacher.

    19 min

  9. 10/12/2020

    Potty training regression at nursery

    Alina gives advice about what to do when your potty-trained child starts nursery or pre-school and things start to go wrong.

    9 min

  10. 10/02/2020

    Chronic constipation and disimpaction

    Alina talks to Natalie, one of ERIC's Helpline Advisors about disimpaction - a common treatment for chronic constipation.  She explains when this treatment is recommended, how it should be approached and what signs parents & carers need to look out for so they know it is working.

    12 min

  11. 09/14/2020

    Children that will only poo in a nappy

    Tips and advice from Alina, one of ERIC's Helpline advisors, about how to encourage children out of nappies and get them using the potty or toilet.

    16 min

  12. 07/30/2020

    Bedwetting - lifting and pullups

    Alina, our Communications Manager and Helpline Advisor offers tips on how to transition a 7 year old out of night-time pull-ups and how to work towards dry nights.

    14 min
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Informal and judgement-free discussions about everything from bedwetting, daytime wetting, chronic constipation, soiling and other toileting problems. We tackle questions from parents & carers, with experts from the ERIC, The Children's Bowel & Bladder Charity providing solutions and management strategies for these common childhood conditions.

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