CONTAINMENT PERFORMANCE - A COMPARISON OF CLOTH AND PAPER DIAPERS

This study compares the containment performance of disposable paper di apers containing absorbent gelling material and reusable cloth diaperi ng systems by determining urine capacities and by measuring leakage of fluorescent-labelled synthetic feces in a simulated day care setting. The disposable paper diapers had 2-3 times the fluid capacity of clot h diapers (p < 0.05). Use of paper diapers in a simulated day care set ting resulted in significantly less fecal leakage (p = 0.009) and sign ificantly less fecal contamination of the mom floor area (p = 0.001).