LiveAnew Absorbency Guide

This guide can help you choose the best product for your incontinence. The three main styles of incontinence products (Pads, Pull-On Underwear and Briefs) vary greatly in their abosrobency, with pads having the least capacity and briefs having the highest capacity. At LiveAnew, we use a six-drop scale that is different for each style. In other words, a 3-drop rated pad has a very different maximum absorbency than a 3-drop brief. The drops are used to compare products within a style, but not to compare products of different styles. In general a 6-drop product in one style is similar to a 3-drop product in the next most absorbent style.
	Pads	Pull-On Underwear	Breifs (Adult Diapers)
	Stress Incontinence - a few drops	X	X
	Stress Incontinence - a small spritz of fluid	X	X
	Stress and mild Urge Incontinence - a small gush of fluid	Stress and Urge Incontinence - a large gush of fluid, but not a full bladder loss	Up to 3 full bladder losses - urine and fecal Incontinence
	Stress and moderate Urge Incontinence - a moderate gush of fluid	Stress and Urge Incontinence - up to 1 full bladder loss	Up to 4 full bladder losses - urine and fecal Incontinence
	Stress and heavy Urge Incontinence - a large gush of fluid	Stress and Urge Incontinence - up to 2 full bladder losses	Up to 5 full bladder losses - urine and fecal Incontinence
	Stress and Urge Incontinence - a large gush of fluid, but not a full bladder loss	Stress and Urge Incontinence - up to 3 full bladder losses	Up to 6 full bladder losses - urine and fecal Incontinence