New Hope For Children With Bedwetting Problems. Dr Alexander Golbin Has Created a Remarkable New Device That Is Over 80% Effective Without Noisy Alarms. This is a Major New Step For Sleep Expert Dr Golbin Best Known For His Books on Children's Sleep and Sleep Psychiatry

    GURNEE, IL, November 04, 2008 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Dr Alexander Golbin is a remarkable sleep physician who has been working with children and sleep disorders for over 30 years. He has produced a revolutionary Break-Through in Control of Bedwetting - "SleepDoc" Device.

The nature and treatment of Bedwetting (Nocturnal Enuresis) has long been a stumbling block for medicine. Parents have sought help from pediatricians who were short on advice and commonly loud alarms were used that wake up entire households except for the bedwetter. Resistance is the term that physicians used to explain why medications that suppress bedwetting did not work. Recently, however, the secrets of bedwetting were uncovered and the revolutionary method of enuresis control was developed.

Alexander Golbin, MD.,PhD, Director of Sleep and Behavior Medicine Institute in the Chicago are, who is practicing pediatric and adult sleep medicine, devoted about 30 years to study sleep of hundreds of bedwetters. His revolutionary discovery of the functional role of wetting in maturity of the brain was published in a popular book for parents: The World of Children's Sleep, in an international textbook "Sleep Psychiatry" in England, and presented on meetings of the Association of Sleep Societies in USA. He works closely with Dr Ira L Shapira a Gurnee dentist who is a pioneer in treating Sleep apnea and snoring with oral appliances. Dr Golbin and Dr Shapira are both acutely aware that 80% of ADD and ADHD patients have sleep apnea. They work together to prevent the problems that develop in children with undiagnosed or untreated sleep disorders. They are traveling together to India as honored guests in November to give lectures on sleep disorders to the Indian Medical Community.

Dr. Alexander Golbin and a talented engineer and inventor Leonid Danishevski (LMold, LTD) invented, designed and build unique device "SleepDoc" for PREVENTION of bedwetting. The SleepDoc device "senses' when the child will be wet, and is activated BEFORE bedwetting occurs.

What is bedwetting (nocturnal enuresis)?
It is an involuntary reflex of urination in sleep.
It was discovered that bedwetting is not a single symptom but a complicated syndrome of enuresis, that includes other disordered sleep and wake symptoms.
Involuntary urination in sleep is very different from the act of day time voluntary urination. In sleep it is a sudden brief outburst of the large quality of urine without any movements of pelvic muscles. This unusual reflex appears when the sleep "stuck" in one cycle, and the act of bedwetting activates the "switch", and moves sleep process.

What is "SleepDoc"?
Based on this ground breaking discovery of the compensatory function of enuresis, a revolutionary method of bedwetting control was developed, using the "SleepDoc" device. Special sensors of time, body position and other parameters allow a computer inside of the " SleepDoc" predict when the act of bedwetting is about to come, and it turns on the mild vibrations that produces scratching or body position changes (this is usually leads to switch in sleep stages.
Thus, the SleepDoc trains the sleeping child to switch from immature and unhealthy reflex of bedwetting into mature and healthy reflex of mild scratching or changes in body positions. After a few weeks of such "training" many children with mild to moderate severity of bedwetting (about 80%) became free from this affliction.
Other 20% of patients that not respond to the SleepDoc usually have deeper sleep, other sleep or medical problems and need to be evaluated in a sleep center to add a specific for them treatment. The SleepDoc in these cases should be an adjunct to medical treatment.
SleepDoc is NOT a treatment, but training device preventing the body from going into too long and too deep sleep stages, reinforcing normal sleep cycles dynamics.

Recommendations:
Bedwetting is a medical disorder, and as in any other medical situations the child should be evaluated by the doctor -pediatrician and a sleep specialist.
Medical and sleep evaluations will ruled out multiple medical and psychological causes of bedwetting, for example, adenoids, mood swings, ADHD, etc. A sleep study will establish exactly what type and severity of enuresis the child has, and establish individualized treatment especially if medications are considered.
The sleep test is a continuous recording the child's brain waves, heart rate, breathing, muscles, body positions and other physiological parameters.
The sleep test's is performed in a child friendly way ("a sleep- over party").
Typically, during the sleep test in the lab the child parent is sleeps near by.

How to get a "SleepDoc"?
If a SleepDoc is recommended as a part of the treatment plan by your doctor or by our sleep specialist, you could order a SleepDoc directly from the manufacturer.
Phone: (847) 274- 9766
E mail: [email protected]. .
Website about SleepDoc: www.trysleepdoc.com
Website about bedwetting and other sleep related problems:
www.sleepandhealth.com/journal
No more child and family struggles. Say NO to BEDWETTING.

For questions or appointments call: 847- 984-6585 or
E mail: [email protected].

Dr Golbin was the head of Child Psychiatry at Cook County Hospital for many years prior to opening Sleep and Behavioral Medicine Institute with locations in Skokie, Bannockburn and Vernon Hills. In addition to his two english language books he also has two books that were published in his native tongue, Russian. He started his career in Russia as a pediatric cardiologist but became fascinated by sleep after a single patient who died of what is now called SIDS changed his life. This charming man has a comfortable personality and few would suspect that he is an olympic quality skier and ski instructor seeing his compact size.

He says that the nature and treatment of Bedwetting (Nocturnal Enuresis) has always been a stumbling block for medicine. Children would continue to wet their beds in spite of earth shattering alarms that wake everyone but the bedwetter.
Recently, however, Dr Golbin discovered the secrets of bedwetting and this revolutionary method of enuresis control was developed. He expects that over 80% of children will respond as he has seen those results in the patients he has already studied. His goal is to have sleep physicians across the country routinely evaluate bedwetters and prescribe the SleepDoc technology.

Dr Golbin has received patent protection for this device and the following information is taken directly from his patent documents.

Various approaches are known in the art to address sleep disorders. Some use alarms to awaken sleepers or to alert caregivers of a certain condition, others use medicines, electric or magnetic fields to affect the body. The present invention provides a device that may be useful in a method of helping a body to switch from various stages of sleep, that may provide benefits to the attendant biological effects from switching stages of sleep.

In children with bedwetting, the child does not awaken and experiences enuresis, an uncontrolled or involuntary discharge of urine. Later in life, in many children enuresis spontaneously disappears. However, about 3-5 percent still wet until adolescence or even adulthood, which causes tremendous personal and family distress. Medication treatment to suppress enuresis is very expensive and not very successful in many patients.

The following patent art discloses various devices and methods for use in dealing with bedwetting, bedsores, and insomnia. Many of the bedwetting devices are alarm systems to either wake the sleeper at the first sign of moisture, or to notify a caregiver that a person is wet and may benefit from attention. In many of those cases, the vibrations serve as an alarm to wake the sleeper or provide notice to the caregiver. Also in the art, an example is described below, is a motion-sensitive system that will cause vibration and movement when there has been no motion of the patient detected for a pre-determined amount of time. That system is for the prevention or treatment of bedsores, and a change in the contact of the body with the body support is the goal.

The present invention takes a new approach to the problem of providing a device that may be useful in a method of helping a body to switch from various stages of sleep, that may provide benefits to the attendant biological effects from switching stages of sleep. It is a goal of the invention to provide vibratory action to a body when it has not moved in a predetermined amount of time.

The present invention provides a device or system for monitoring a personal condition, body movement or lack thereof. The device or system causes a vibratory motion when there has been a lack of body movement or change in body position for a predetermined amount of time. The device or system of the invention includes a mat upon which a person sleeps. The mat includes one or more body motion/position sensors to detect motion, or lack thereof, of the sleeper upon the mat, and optionally also the body position of the sleeper. The device also includes a vibrating means. When the sensors show that no movement of the sleeper has been detected for a predetermined amount of time, the vibrating component provides vibrational action until motion of the sleeper is detected. In a preferred embodiment, the device also detects body position, such as when there is a sleeper on the mat. The device optionally also provides an alarm when its operating power is low.

Dr Ira L Shapira is an author and section editor of Sleep and Health, President of I HATE CPAP LLC, President Dato-TECH, and has a Dental Practice with his partner Dr Mark Amidei. He has recently formed Chicagoland Dental Sleep Medicine Associates. He is a Regent of ICCMO and its representative to the TMD Alliance, He was a founding and certified member of the Sleep Disorder Dental Society which became the American Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine, A founding member of DOSA the Dental Organization for Sleep Apnea. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Dental Sleep Medicine, A Diplomat of the American Academy of Pain Management, a graduate of LVI. He is a former assistant professor at Rush Medical Schools Sleep Service where he worked with Dr Rosalind Cartwright who is a founder of Sleep Medicine and Dental Sleep Medicine. Dr Shapira is a consultant to numerous sleep centers and teaches courses in Dental Sleep Medicine in his office to doctors from around the U.S. He is the Founder of I HATE CPAP LLC and http://www.ihatecpap.com Dr Shapira also holds several patents on methods and devices for the prophylactic minimally invasive early removal of wisdom teeth and collection of bone marrow and stem cells. Dr Shapira is a licensed general dentist in Illinois and Wisconsin.

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