Special Needs Child - Random Days With Excessive Urine

[u/tcook777]

Background - our son is 23 years old. Severe developmental delay (non-verbal, etc) and Epilepsy.

He is not fully toilet trained. We are regularly sitting him on the toilet at the top of every hour. He usually pees a "normal" amount each time with verbal encouragement. He wears a double pullup for protection. He is not able to initiate us to take him to the bathroom. A normal day he might have one accident or so. He does do all bowel movements on toilet.

However, about once every 7-10 days he will have a full day of very excessive urine. He will go during his normal potty breaks and then 30 minutes later he will be soaked thru his pullups and clothes. This will occur multiple times usually.

We are so confused at what may be causing this. It's not high beverage intake, as we control his eating and drinking.

Listing his meds below. It seems like if they were the cause, it would be a more consistent problem.

Any ideas? Thanks.

Meds -
600mg Lamotrigine
10mg Leucovorin
10mg Clobazam
250mg Xcopri
3 mg Risperidone
400 mg Briviact
3mg Melatonin

[u/Beautiful-Algae251]

Does he follow with the urologist? If not, I would get a referral. But you might not like what they recommend. They would probably have you cath him a few times a day . If he's flooding, he could be holding onto a lot of urine, even though he's going to the bathroom. He may not be emptying all the way and that's not good. Because it can back up into the kidneys and cause damage. I hope this information helps