The problem is not new. One remembers in particular the results of a survey of school toilets, conducted some years ago by the Federation of Parents of Paris (CIPF): 70% of parents stated thattheir child complained of his school toilets(kindergarten, primary, college or high school), while a quarter of children had suffered intestinal or urinary tract infection after using the toilets of his establishment. Even if due to some bias, this is criticism, it is necessary to take very seriously this issue because it can cause health problems, up to condition future incontinence. Children will sometimes hold all day to avoid using the toilets from the property. Ultimately, this behavior promotes leakage and urinary tract infections,particularly among girls.
Passage to the toilet 5 or 6 times per day
Filthy toilets, lack of privacy, lack of time or to leave the room during the course, many children learn to remember. This behavior increases therisk of leakage, Particularly among girls.
The latter, having a urinary tract shorter than boys, are more exposed. In addition, the state of WC handicape least boys can always find a tree or a wall on the sidelines.
Whichever is too long, the child may also not knowing his sphincter relax at the appropriate time, resulting in poor drainage of urine bladder. Or completely empty the bladder reduces the risk of infections and constipation associated.
Completely empty their bladder decreases the risk of urinary tract infections
To empty the bladder, a girl should be relaxed, release his perineum and not force. Therefore, they must urinate in a sitting position, knees apart, not hindered by clothing.
It is essential to have clean toilets, an intimate and take his time. The toilets of schools do not always respond to these three conditions.
The advice of the French Association of Urology
- Learn or relearn the child to urinate well at home and at school.
- The urination must be fair and comprehensive: do not spend a morning or afternoon without emptying the bladder, until the last drop.
- Explain to the girls to wipe in the right direction: from front to back and not vice versa.
- Provide accessible restrooms, adequate, clean, friendly intimacy between the boys and girls.
- Educators to understand the need for children to regularly and completely empty their bladder, the risk of their falling into the functional pathology, which is a factor of school failure is far from negligible.
- Think how to integrate the act voiding in the school timetable.


