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What happens if initial treatment does not work?
What happens if initial treatment does not work?
If you think that care for the child or young person does not match what is described in this information, please talk to a member of your healthcare team in the first instance.
Following alarm treatment
If alarm treatment is not successful, desmopressin should be offered (see box 2 in desmopressin treatment) to take as well as using the alarm. Alternatively, if the child or young person or you no longer want to use an alarm, desmopressin should be offered alone.
If the combination of an alarm with desmopressin has been only partially successful, the healthcare team should advise that alarm treatment is stopped and offer desmopressin alone.
Following desmopressin treatment
If desmopressin treatment is not successful, the healthcare team may offer an anticholinergic drug to take with desmopressin (see anticholinergics combined with desmopressin).