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Abstract

A disposable waste containment garment which is particularly useful and leakage resistant for bedridden incontinent adults. The garment has side-edge-leakage-guard gutters having closed ends, and longitudinally elasticized distal edges. The gutters and the other garment elements are configured and disposed to substantially obviate inversion or unfolding of the gutters during application and use of the garment. The garment is sized and configured so that, when secured on a user, the elasticized distal edges of the gutters will normally extend along the groin regions of the user, and diverge upwardly across abdominal, hip and lower back areas of the user rather than encircling the thighs of the user. The absorbent core of the garment is preferably sufficiently resilient to cause it to stand away from some lower abdominal and hip regions of the user. This, in conjunction with the gutters being sufficiently flexible and elasticized, causes adjacent portions of the gutters to be biased open. These open portions of the gutters are, in fact, reservoirs which substantially obviate leakage by containing free liquid during urination events when fluid is received in the garment faster than it can be absorbed in the absorbent core of the garment, or whenever free liquid is squeezed out of a portion of the garment as when the weight of a bedridden user is shifted. The ends of the gutters in the waistband regions of the garment may be sealed liquid tight, or be secured closed with edge portions of the absorbent core and/or topsheet disposed therein, or a combination of such sealing and securing.

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