Abstract:

Childhood enuresis (also known as nocturnal enuresis, NE) is intermittent urinary incontinence that occurs at night during sleep in children ≥5 years of age, and is one of the common clinical disorders in pediatrics. The persistent symptoms of nocturnal enuresis affect children's physical and mental health and quality of life, which aggravates social anxiety and increases the burden of family care. In order to standardize the clinical diagnosis and treatment protocols of NE in integrative Chinese and western medicine, the Chinese Society of Traditional Chinese Medicine (CSTCM) Children's Health Collaborative Innovation Platform (CHCIP), the Chinese Children's Enuresis Disease Management Collaborative Group of Renal Disease Group of Pediatricians Branch of Chinese Medical Doctor Association (CMDA), and the Kidney Rheumatism Endocrinology Cooperative Group of Pediatric Special Committee of Chinese Association of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine have jointly initiated the development of this guideline. The guideline systematically sorts out NE from the aspects of definition, clinical classification, pathogenesis, medical history collection, physical examination, auxiliary examination, and diagnosis and treatment strategies of integrative Chinese and western medicine. Especially, it puts forward the integrative points of Chinese and western medicine regarding different clinical classifications of NE, with the aim of providing rationalized suggestions and references for the diagnosis and treatment of NE in both Chinese and western medicines, and promoting the development of the research on the combination of Chinese and western medicines in NE.

Key words: Enuresis, Clinical practice guidelines, Integrative Chinese and western medicine, Criteria, Child