Regarding diapers: supermarket brands are cheapies and can leak (e.g. Tena, Depends, etc.)
Instead you'll want to take yourself to a pharmacy or care store to seek out a proper continence pad, yes they cost slightly more, but they work. These will not leak as you move about in the dive as the moisture is converted into a dry gel via super absorbent polymers.
They feel dry to the touch and as a bonus will balance the pH as to not interfere with the skin's acid mantle. There is no threat of breaching the capacity as absorbencies can be in the litres.
I have a spinal injury and have experienced both catheters (both Foley, which have a balloon in the bladder, and isc ones, which don't) and modern absorbent underwear.
Catheters are evil pain sticks. Modern pants are wonderful and have dramatically improved my quality of life.
You might argue against it for babies but at a certain stage feeling the moisture is a motivator for kids to learn to use the toilet.
That's why one potty training technique is to switch kids to regular underwear and mange the fact that they'll be wet pretty frequently. It's the uncomfortable wetness that both makes them want to potty train and lets them understand what it means to hold their bladder.
I was in disposable diapers as a kid but they used cloth reusable for my brother 2 years younger than me. One night they ran out of disposable so they outfitted me with a cloth one, next morning I was dry and I refused to wear diapers after that.
> Wouldn’t they just start pissing literally anywhere, though?
Yes. As an adult male, I piss any and everywhere I can get away with it. Parenting, common decency, and law enforcement have narrowed that down to mostly bathrooms and backcountry.
Yes, they will pee anywhere because their whole lives they’ve been covered in a soft diaper. But it doesn’t take long for them to learn that is an uncomfortable feeling in normal underwear and there’s an incentive to use the toilet.
As father to a toddler, the diapers we have (pampers brand) definitely contain these extremely absorbent polymers. They never leak and can contain insane amounts of liquid. Sometimes you forget about the diapers for half a day and there's no leaks and almost no irritation if the skin.
The latest Pampers diaper tech for kiddos is a veritable marvel of human technology. It will expand to like 5+ times the size while feeling dry (more or less) to the touch on the inside. It's still gross to deal with, but not remotely as much as I would have expected.
Instead you'll want to take yourself to a pharmacy or care store to seek out a proper continence pad, yes they cost slightly more, but they work. These will not leak as you move about in the dive as the moisture is converted into a dry gel via super absorbent polymers. They feel dry to the touch and as a bonus will balance the pH as to not interfere with the skin's acid mantle. There is no threat of breaching the capacity as absorbencies can be in the litres.