Before you leave there, a doctor or nurse will teach you how to change the bag and keep the skin around your stoma clean. How to Care for Your Stoma You'll change it a few times a day.

You may need an ostomy if you can no longer poop or pee normally. A hole is created in your body surgically for you to urinate or defecate. Here’s what to expect from the surgery.

A breathing stoma is a hole (opening) made in the skin in front of your neck to allow you to breathe.

A woman who almost died after childhood bullies stamped on her stoma is hoping to make fitness history. Lindsay Bowers, 41, from Southampton, was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis at the age of ...

Looking after your stoma A stoma is a hole (opening) made in the skin in front of your neck to allow you to breathe. It is at the base of your neck. Through this hole, air enters and leaves your ...

10 things you should know about living with a stoma Musician Tom Speight has lived with a stoma for over a decade, after undergoing an emergency operation that saved his life. Here he unpacks some ...

Woman With Stoma Bag Shares Baby Joy As She Breaks Pregnancy Stigma Published Apr 04, 2023 at 10:39 AM EDT Updated Apr 10, 2023 at 3:36 PM EDT By ...

Adele Rober ts has revealed she may be forced to undergo surgery after being unable to return her prolapsed stoma into it's bag, three years after having colostomy surgery following a battle with ...

Millennial Woman With Stoma Who Refuses To Stop Wearing a Bikini Applauded Published Mar 24, 2025 at 10:30 AM EDT By Lucy Notarantonio ...

A woman is documenting her experiencing living with a stoma bag – including shopping for a wedding dress – because she wants to "normalise it and break the stigma".

Peristomal dermatoses commonly afflict the area around stoma openings in ostomy patients. These complications, however, are often unreported by patients and remain untreated for years, thus ...