摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a nonwoven fabric for a top sheet of an absorbent article which remains dry after absorbing menstrual blood and prevents the absorbed menstrual blood from diffusing on the nonwoven fabric.SOLUTION: A nonwoven fabric 5 for a top sheet of an absorbent article has a lengthwise direction and a crosswise direction, and has a plurality of units in the crosswise direction which are composed of four areas or a first area 1, a second area 2, a third area 3, and a fourth area 4 which extend in the lengthwise direction. The second area and the fourth area have a higher content of fibers oriented in the lengthwise direction than the third area, and the first area has a higher content of the fibers oriented in the crosswise direction than the third area. The second area, the third area, and the fourth area have a second blood lubricant-containing area, a third blood lubricant-containing area, and a fourth blood lubricant-containing area, and the basis weights of blood lubricant in the second blood lubricant-containing area and the fourth blood lubricant-containing area are larger than the basis weight of the blood lubricant in the third blood lubricant-containing area. |