Diapers Q&A
Cloth diapers?
I have read surveys that say up to 20% of adults have atleast some degree of incontinence. For the more severe cases, how many people use cloth diapers instead of disposables? And, did you even know that they made cloth diapers for adults?
Public Comments
- hahaha just let them run around naked and slap some powder and AD&D on them. and let them play in the sun. they'll feel like little kids again. and the worst cases are because they wear diapers alll the time! try letting them free lol more baths for sure!
- 1. Don't think as an adult I would want to depend (LOL) on a cloth diaper for incontinence and 2. I did not know there was such a thing as an adult cloth diaper.
- No Way! I thought cloth diapers went out in the 70/80's! Wow. I had no idea. Personally if I needed something for incontinence as a female I would just revert to the trusty maxi-pad. If I was elderly though and needed someone to take care of me I would be torn. The cloth diapers are reusable and more cost-effective, but thats alot of burden on someone to maintain. While the disposables are easier to deal with, might be a bit more expensive, and might need to be bagged up and carried off frequently for odor reasons ( a la Diaper genie )
- Samantha is on the right track with her thoughts. I am moderately incontinent and need to wear a diaper 24 / 7 and it was a difficult decision to make as to what to wear because each had it's good points as well as bad points. I finally settled on cloth diapers with using disposables occasionally like for vacations and other trips where washing cloth diapers is rather inconvenient. Yes, there are cloth diapers available for adults from the old fashioned rectangle flat diaper to the newer contour style with elastic in the waist and legs to help control leakage. Personally, I wear the contour kind but rather than buy them I made my own from baby loop terry cloth and microfleece and I use regular diaper pins to hold them on, it just takes a few more pins than it does for a baby's diaper, for obvious reasons. Disposable diapers put so much paper and plastic into the landfills and in my mind should be outlawed for what they are doing to our environment. They last for many many years and in some cases will be around long after you and I pass from this earth. Secondarily it also puts a lot of human waste into our landfills which can't be a very healthy thing either. Everyone worries about paints, and cleaners and such seeping down into our underground water systems, what about human urine and fecal matter doing the same thing and carrying the germs along with it that it includes. Think about it, some of these come from nursing homes where people are dealing with life threatening diseases every day and these same diseases are in the diaper waste material and seeping into our drinking water. It's no wonder people get sick so easily any more these days. I wonder where some of it could be coming from? The cloth diapers only generate two more loads of laundry for me a week and I think that is a fair trade for what I keep from putting in the landfills. What about the waste water you ask? It goes into a septic tank along with all the other waste water from my home and is broken down naturally like it has been for people for hundreds of years. You want my opinion? Cloth, Cloth, Cloth, and only Cloth!! That's the way to go. Good luck.
- i'm 20 and always need to weraing diapers without any medical problem..
