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Bedwetting beyond a certain age is considered a condition requiring attention. [iStockphoto]

For most, the embarrassment of waking up to a wet bed is confined to childhood memories. But for 23-year-old Nelima*, this mortifying experience has followed her into adulthood, a cruel continuation of a battle with nocturnal enuresis -- the clinical term for bedwetting.

"It's shameful and embarrassing that, at my age, I still wet the bed," Nelima says.

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