Disposable hygiene pants with a front portion (2), a rear portion (3) and acrotch portion (4) provided with two leg openings (5, 6), the longitudinaledge portions (21, 22) of the front portion being connected by longitudinalweld seams (7, 8) to the longitudinal edge portions (31, 32) of the rearportion (3) in order to form a waist opening (9) and the two leg openings (5,6) in the crotch portion, which leg openings are outwardly delimited in thetransverse direction by the inner end portions of the weld seams as seen inthe longitudinal direction of the hygiene pants. The hygiene pants have anouter elastic cover (10) and comprise an absorption unit (11). The cover ismade of an elastic laminate comprising an elastic film applied between twononwoven layers. The weld seams (7, 8) are each reinforced by at least onenonwoven strip (15, 16) containing thermoplastic fibres and have a tensilestrength, in a direction transverse to the weld seam, in excess of 5 N/25.4 mmat least in the portions reinforced with said nonwoven strip (15, 16).
