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US 2006/0052033 A1Published application
Medicated breast pad
AssigneeThe First Years Inc. a Massachusetts corporation
InventorsRichard Foley, Kyle Nanna, Sherry Thomas
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Abstract
A breast pad has a wax-like medicament, such as lanolin, disposed on an exposed surface of an inner surface of the pad in only a limited region, leaving other regions of the inner surface has a permeable region free of the medicament.
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A breast pad comprising:
- a core containing absorbent material;
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- a liquid impermeable cover disposed on an outer side of the core;
- wherein an inner surface of the core contains a wax-like medicament in a limited region thereof, such that the inner surface allows for absorption into the breast pad through a remaining medicament-free region of the inner surface of the core.
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A breast pad comprising:
- an inner surface for contacting a mammary gland;
- wherein the inner surface has a first region with a wax-like medicament and a second region that is free of wax-like medicaments;
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- wherein the second region is permeable to fluids and permits absorption of mammary into the breast pad.
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A method of absorbing mammary fluids while soothing skin, the method comprising
- providing a breast pad having an inner surface with a first region containing a wax-like medicament, and a second region that is free of wax-like medicaments and is permeable to permit absorption of mammary fluid into the pad;
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- placing the breast pad on a human mammary gland, with the first region contacting at least a portion of an areola of the mammary gland and the permeable second region contacting the mammary gland for absorption of fluids.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.