Absorbent article including a reducing agent for feces
AssigneeThe Procter & Gamble Company
InventorsDonald C. Roe, Brian R. White, John Christison, Christopher P. Bewick-Sonntag
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Abstract
An absorbent article adapted to receive feces having a first waist region, a second waist region opposed to the first waist region, a crotch region disposed between the first waist region and the second waist region, the absorbent article comprising: a liquid pervious topsheet; a liquid impervious backsheet joined to at least a portion of the topsheet; an absorbent core disposed between at least a portion of the topsheet and the backsheet, and an effective amount of a feces reducing agent disposed in the article such that the reducing agent is available to contact at least a portion of the feces deposited in the article.
Claims14
An absorbent article adapted to receive feces having a first waist region, a second waist region opposed to the first waist region, a crotch region disposed between the first waist region and the second waist region, the absorbent article comprising:
- a liquid pervious topsheet;
- a liquid impervious backsheet joined to at least a portion of the topsheet;
- an absorbent core disposed between at least a portion of the topsheet and the backsheet;
- a waste management element having an Acceptance Under Pressure value of greater than 0.50 grams of a viscous fluid bodily waste per square inch of the waste management element per millijoule of energy input;
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- an effective concentration of a feces modifying agent disposed in the article such that the feces modifying agent is available to contact at least a portion of the feces deposited in the article and to physically or chemically modify at least a portion of the feces deposited in the article wherein said feces modifying agent is selected from the group consisting of:
- sulfites, thiols, alcohols, mercaptoacetic acid, sodium thioglycolate, thiolactic
- acid, thioglycoamide, glycerol monothioglycolate, borohydrides, tertiary amines, thiocyanates, thiosulfates, cyanides, thiophosphates, arsenites, phosphines, betaines, hydroxylamine, and LiHB(C2H5)3.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.