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It wont hurt to take him to see a doctor but most wont do anything for bed wetting until past older age. I took my son to the doctor and found nothing wrong and it was suggested by my doctor to put diapers on at night. Since bed wetting runs in our family I have done A LOT of research on the topic as well.

Staying dry at night is a learned response between brain and body. As the body grows the response can get delayed due to whats called an immature bladder. Many kids from 3 to teenage years who have been dry begin to wet the bed and have the need to go back to wearing diapers at night. My doctor explained to me that as the child grows, the bladder does not always grow as fast to keep up with the body growth which is called an immature bladder. Its a stage where many kids go through to where the sensory to wake the child is not there due to the immature bladder. The child stay sleeping hence the child wets the bed because the bladder will empty. This stage typically happens after a child has been potty trained. Plus as children grow the heavier sleepers they become which doesn't help so it's not something you can train a child for at night. Every child is different and progresses different, some kids can get the response down at age 3 and never have a problem or some are 7 yrs old wearing a diaper to bed, so the age when kids grow out of the bed wetting stage can vary.

I would continue to limit the drinks at night, continue to make him use the potty right before bed continue with a diaper for protection. It is perfectly normal especially at his age to wear diapers, my son is also 6 and gets diapered nightly for bed ( I still use reg tape on diapers instead of the goodnite pullup diapers, they absorb more and fit better and we have not had any leaks). Plus it makes it much easier on everyone when diapers are used (also suggested by our doctor) as less laundry to do and less chance of ruining the bedding.

I know what thats like. I had that problem until I was like 13 or something. Some people it just takes time until they stop. I drank very little or none hour before sleeping and woke up like that. Eventually I stopped. My doctor said that the only thing they could do would be pills that would make you release more when you go to the toilet before sleep(I cant remember much what he said). Sometimes I stopped for a week and then it continued. So the only thing really is just wait for it to stop. Try setting an alarm to wake him up about 3 to 4 hours after going to sleep. For me it was and is usually... sleep at 11pm wake up around 2 am going to toilet to release bladder. dont drink anything within 4 hours before sleeping.

OMG, this is exactly like my ugly childhood except that we didn't have Goodnite protection and it was HORRIFYING.

My situation went on for YEARS!

Later in life, I learned that my wetting was directly related to the fearful, stressful and terrifying emotional climate in our home put there by my abusive, frightening dad and powerless mom. I was a PST victim and it took a long time to finally stop wetting so much. My parents would have NEVER admitted that they were the direct cause of this STRESS or that there was anything abnormal about our seemingly "normal" family. Even doctors would have agreed with them!

If you have the conscience to do it, look deeply and HONESTLY into the emotional nature of your son's life and home to see what is disturbing his sleep and causing him to refuse to wake up and go to the toilet as most kids do.

I lived with perpetual NIGHT MARES and preferred to stay asleep rather than face the horrors in the night or go to the pot. I often had vivid, happy dreams of urinating in some comfortable place only to wake up in a soaked bed! We could not stay over night at any relative's home so it was a living nightmare for all of us!

All because my stupid parents could not see how their (bad) behavior was effecting me during those years!

I am sure they always believed it was genetic and that I'd out grow it some day. Well it took many years. I finally stopped wetting at about 11 after starting to have nocturnal erections which interferes with automatic peeing (in boys).

You can't really do anything. My friends little brother had that problem too and went through the same thing. I honestly would just try to wait it out and have him try to go to the bathroom before he goes to bed.

I would take him to the doctor. Perhaps he has a disease that causes him to pee often. Keep an eye out for any other symptoms out of the ordinary. Good luck.

My sister had to go to this sleeping place and they figure out what's causing it and fix it. Just go to the doctor and they'll tell you