11. In secondary enuresis ( bed-wetting ), the cause often is stress or emotional. 12. Trauma can trigger a return to bedwetting ( secondary enuresis ) in both children and adults. 13. In pediatric patients, it is relatively frequently used to treat pavor nocturnus and nocturnal enuresis . 14. Jellinek said, " in the last decade clinicians have suspected that primary enuresis was inherited. 15. In secondary enuresis a child wets only occasionally, after having been dry for at least six months. 16. Imipramine is mainly used in the treatment of major depression and enuresis ( inability to control urination ). 17. Parents, too, feel the strain of bedwetting, or nocturnal enuresis , as it is formally known. 18. The relationship between enuresis and obstructive apnea, and the benefit of adenoidectomy by implication, is complex and controversial. 19. However, some authors continue to speculate that enuresis may be related to firesetting and animal cruelty in some way. 20. Dear Phoenix : The medical term for your daughter's problem is " enuresis " and is common.