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Have you just bought a bedwetting diaper and would like to find out if it will hold up to holding in all urine that was spewed out in an accident in the average course of a night? This article will tell you how to test it to ensure it won't leak out urine.

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    Prepare a fresh clean diaper. Take out and open up a fresh clean diaper from the diaper package. Prepare the elastic siderail cuffguards (more often called/nicknamed leakguards). Make sure that the sides of the diaper aren't stuck together or still to the diaper itself..
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    Collect a small cupful of a liquid (either real urine or water) in a disposable cup. As long as the item you can pour is a liquid, you can choose whatever you feel like using. However, for availability, tap water works wonders. You will need quite a bit of this liquid, so collect about 2-3 cups worth for estimating potentially heavier-wetting users diapers. Think in terms of accident quantity equivalents when estimating how much you'll need to use to perform the task.
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    Dribble a small to moderate stream of the liquid into the bedwetting diaper. Make sure none of the liquid doesn't cross-contaminate the outside edge of the diaper or become lost in the process when pouring instead. If you can reach the hand that is holding the cup down into the crevices of the diaper (to get a more-precise aim with the liquid) without causing your hands to get super-dirty/gross, try to pour it directly onto the entire containment zone.
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    Re-seat the diaper in your hand. Hold your one hand flat and fingers tightly together. You're hands need to be firm, but squishable. The diaper will be waterlogged and some may potentially leak out a little. If the diaper is so liquidy that it spews the liquid out the external pieces of the diaper, this diaper might not last on most wearers and you'll have to discard this diaper.
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    Hold the diaper in the palm of your hand, touching only the center bottom portion of the diaper. Walk over towards a toilet or another water-absorbent object you can squish the diaper out to be. Your hand must be almost or completely flat. Make sure the back side of the diaper is facing your hand.
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    Pinch the back side of the diaper between any two of your fingers in a consecutive line. Hold it by the diaper's waistline portion as close as you can by only your one hand, as you'll need to use the other hand for another part of the task that must be performed at exactly the same time.
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    Wrap your hand to form a cup-styled figure around the bottom edge of the diaper, and squeeze the diaper. Do you see any water spewing out from it? Although all diapers aren't supposed to spew when squeezed, if you notice it spewing when you squeeze, you'll potentially realize that either you are squeezing too hard or the diaper isn't built to handle as much liquid as you poured into the diaper. (If you decided to go with the "real" urine route, you can wash your hands immediately after this project is done).
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    Roll the diaper into a tight ball starting at the area where you squeezed the diaper. Roll this diaper over into a two-ply form. It may or may not trickle out the sides. If it does trickle out the sides, this diaper brand isn't worthy to be used. Cheap bedwetting diaper companies aren't going to hold urine as well as the popular name brand ones (such as Huggies Goodnites or Pampers Underjams) and therefore will potentially trickle excess urine out the sides of the diape (thereby getting the bed full of excess liquid the diaper couldn't hold).
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    Represent extreme force on the diaper, when you roll the diaper up, if after rolling the diaper less it doesn't trickle out any liquid. Imagine what would happen when the user rolls around quite a lot in bed with a soaking wet diaper on. With enough force, the diaper may end up getting super-squished into configurations the diaper wasn't made to hold up to. Great diapers will either only trickle out a few drops, or not drop out any excess water at all.
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    Dispose of the disposable bedwetting diaper into the nearest trashcan.
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EditTips

  • If this process is being done by a child, have your parents help make sure that no urine will seep out from your diaper's core area before wearing one to bed on the first night.
  • The first time you buy a new brand of disposable bedwetting diapers, you'll need to test the diapers out to ensure no leakage will potentially happen. Rest assured that most will stand up to hold liquids, as that is what they were designed for, but how much they will hold, will depend on the diaper-production quality.
  • Make sure that the bedwetting diaper bought for the wearer, will fit the wearer first before performing this test, as running a liquid substance into the diaper after "fitting the wearer" will make the rest of the package unreturnable to the store as one of the diapers has now been "used".
  • Sometimes, a disposable bedwetting diaper will have colored zones that signify the area that urine is supposed to be displaced into. If you see a colored zone in the diaper, only pour water into, and around(and make sure the around extends out to both leakguard areas where the colored containment zones are located)only. With two gender systems pouring urine into different parts of the diapers, some bedwetting diaper companies have developed the idea that two zones are needed (one for boys, and a separate one for girls) that hold up best in only these areas.

EditWarnings

  • Don't just wear a bedwetting diaper to bed the first night, expecting it not to leak without other forms of protection on the bed, if you haven't yet performed the test on the diaper. Some diapers won't hold all the liquids up that will seep into the diaper during an accident, and therefore, extra protection is required too.
  • Because this test requires rolling the diaper up, make sure to take the diaper off as soon as you tried it on to ensure a good fit, to test the diaper's leakage rate. The wearer could be critically injured in their groin, if the tester began rolling the diaper with the diaper on them. You can begin the squeeze test, once both sides of the diaper have reached the wearer's knees and assuming there's a mat on the floor to ensure the liquid can be soaked up efficiently, but don't try to begin rolling the diaper until it reaches the wearer's ankles.

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