Chummie Elite Bedwetting Alarm for Children and Deep Sleepers – Award Winning Bedwetting Alarm System with Loud Sounds and Strong Vibrations, Blue

I have had a few bed wetting alarms over the past couple of years. All apart from one failed miserably. I achieved good results with a bed wetting mat but beware, the urine degrades the circuits and the performance of the mat deteriorates quickly. So my daughter has had a relapse which is not uncommon and I chose Chummie. It was sceptical about using a wired alarm. But taking everything into account this is an excellent product. Advantages: The one drop detection really works. The alarm sounds the second a drop is detected. Most nights no urine reached the bed, and if so it was just a very small patch so I didn't have to change the sheets till morning. The pad does not degrade. So if your child has a relapse you can use it again. The alarm is loud and the sound (and vibration) really irritated my daughter and apparently it changes randomly which she hated even more. The bottom line is it made her get out of bed! Disadvantages Positioning the pad on your child's underwear can be a little tricky to start with. On a girl don't place it too high. I mastered it after a couple of nights. The Chummie tape on its own will not hold the pad in place. I used it in combination with surgical tape. The loose wire will also need to be secured. I used the surgical tape to tape the wire in two places to my daughter's tummy. Without these measures the pad is likely to dislodge in my experience. Luckily surgical tape is inexpensive. My daughter started to have dry nights after a week and a half and I am very pleased. As long as you are prepared to help your child to detach and reattach the device at night, this is an excellent choice and value for money.

Very simply - this product is not fit for purpose. I have only given this review to save other parents experiencing this frustration. Within one hour of putting my boy to bed, the alarm went off. Initially I was very excited as I ran up the stairs to help him. When I ushered him in his sleepy state to the toilet, I noted that his underwear was completely dry. So, again, two hours later the same this happened. On both events his underwear was dry and there was no urine. I can only assume that the sensor picks up on perspiration but even so, his underwear was dry. The design is poor in that the child has to sleep with a plastic box attached to his chest with wires dangling about. Had I paid £10 for this product, I would not have felt so bitter.

Great, easy to use device. Robust and battery lasts ages. Cleared bedwetting in 3 weeks for our child. The only downside is the price!!

It’s highly sensitive, I notice the improvement on my son we had few accidents from now and then but it so much better, from the first wee, my son started to wake up at night to use the toilet. Although the alarm keeps falling from where it’s attached I have to check it from time to time.

Unfortunately this is too sensitive! It kept going off even though my daughter was not wetting herself. She gets very hot at night and when she gets sweaty the alarm will go off. We found that if her pants got the slightest bit sweaty it went off and we had to keep changing her pants. The result was that she was getting extremely upset by the whole process so we had to stop using it.

I've been really impressed with this, it deserves the 5* I've given it. It is sensitive enough to go off with the slightest dribble of pee (TMI?) meaning that my son is up and to the toilet before he floods the place. The alarm/buzzer are very loud, but unfortunately don't wake my son - however, its so loud that it does wake me and I go and wake him up. Had it a couple of weeks, starting to see dry nights now - if this doesn't work, nothing will.

This product helped my son out in a matter of weeks. He had been dry and then had started wetting every night once again. We used the alarm consistently over a number of weeks. It went off each night but woke him up so that usually he had only wet himself a little. Eventually he woke himself up without the alarm going off and touch wood since then he has been fine.

Only had it three weeks and the censor has broken so I've had to order a new one. Surely it shouldn't brake that quickly? It did do its job when it worked though

il ne fait que sonné même quand il n'y a rien très déçu je ne le recommande pas car dure peu dans le temps

Design engineer here. This is one of the poorest products I have ever used given the comparative price point. Here are my observations: 1- Embossment features on the clip that secure the clip to the alarm unit are too small given the thinness and flexibility of the clip arms that attach to the alarm. They do not have enough positive engagement and holding strength. This means the alarm detaches from the clip too easily. The alarm falls out of the clip with only slight force. 2- The general robustness, fit and finish of the unit are more in line with an under $20 device. The snap-together design has too much tolerance, so the different plastic parts that assemble together to make the body rattle, squeak and chatter together. 3-Attaching the sensor to children's briefs does not work well. The size of the sensor is too large to accommodate the curvature of that area. 4- Stress on the sensor after attachment causes it to easily come loose. A secondary clip near the sensor could provide additional mechanical holding. 5- Sensor wire is far too stiff given the application. 6- Alarm kept going off with no urine, possibly due to perspiration on child’s briefs (does not make sense to me why the unit would have this level of detection). Had to relocate the sensor up to the waistband before the sensor would stop getting false positives. 7- The actual clip portion of the clip is too stiff. This feature either needs to be thinner, have flextural geometry added, or a joint as a separate feature with a spring. Design 101, people want easy to use, effective and inexpensive. I paid more thinking this would be added quality. I know this device is not going into space and quality is relative to the consumer. But like I said, I would put this in the sub $20 range. I hope they create a more robust design. Kids need solutions that work.

I used this for my 4 year old who was fully potty trained for over a year, but having continuous trouble controlling his bladder at night. This is a cheaper version of what you can buy for about twice the price from the same manufacturer. $40 just for an extra flashing light feature and slightly sleeker design was not in the budget, so we purchased this model. The first few nights were rough. He didn't wake up completely and was usually soaked by the time we all got up to help. But then... He started waking up right when he started to urinate. The "detects the first drop off moisture" feature is 100% accurate, as sometimes we couldn't even feel the urine on his underwear but he would rush to the bathroom to go potty! It took, in total, about 12 weeks for this thing to no longer be necessary. The nighttime accidents have reduced to about once a month, which is pretty typical at this age, according to his doctor. The only downsides of this product are pretty much unavoidable. It will wake up everyone within a 100 foot radius. When the little guy woke up, he'd be very disoriented. A couple incidents of going potty in the garbage can or bathroom cupboards in a very much half asleep state. The other issue is just the cleaning. It was quite difficult to clean the small ridges in the sensor - the water and soap it recommends is very hard to dry completely in a reasonable amount of time - it was doable, but it's not exactly something you want to be up in the middle of the night doing. However, if you're using a similar product it's pretty much going to happen. If you're at the stage where I am, though, this product was a miracle and began working almost right away, and did eventually "cure" the bedwetting. I would buy it again.

Good value for the money, but does alarm usually once per night when there has been no accident, sometimes before our kiddos even asleep. Needs a little work to be 5 stars.

We bought this alarm for my youngest son to replace an old Malem alarm we used for my oldest son that is no longer working. (The old Malem alarm worked great for my oldest son, and we loaned it out to 3 friends who also successfully used it. I guess the sensor started getting corroded after being used by 4 kids, which is why we need to replace it). We decided to give the Chummie alarm a try because it was less expensive than the Malem alarms, but we have been very disappointed with the Chummie. We are returning it and will buy another Malem alarm instead. Our complaints about the Chummie alarm: First, they claim the sensor is soft, flexible and will mold to your body. No so! It is very large, rigid and my son thought it was really uncomfortable to wear (he's a side sleeper and it poked into his skin when trying to sleep that way). Second, the sensor does not stay attached to my son's underpants very well, even when we use the Chummie adhesive strips. My son moves around a lot when he's sleeping, and the sensor ends up coming off, which makes it completely useless! He wakes up soaked in pee but the alarm is not going off because it's no attached any more. To get it to stay on, you have to use lots of adhesive tape and then put a second pair of underpants on over the top of the sensor. That's fine when you first put your child to bed, but it's a HUGE inconvenience when the alarm goes off during the night and you have to help your half-asleep child get out of all that wet clothing, go potty, put dry undies back on, and reattach the alarm sensor. NOT pleasant task at 2'oclock in the morning! I do not recommend this alarm!!! Pay a little more and buy one of the Malem alarms. Their very tiny sensor is extremely easy to attach to your child's underpants, and it will not be noticeable to your child when they are sleeping. Their sensor will not accidentally come off and it's very quick to reset after it goes off in the middle of the night. No adhesive tape required!