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.

Prolapsed stoma is when a piece of your intestine pushes out through the stoma, or opening, in your belly. It’s a possible complication of colostomy or ileostomy surgery. A prolapsed stoma may ...

Do you know the difference between a stoma and an ostomy? Learn this and other important facts and tips about stomas, including whether or not they’re reversible.

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 ...

Explore general stoma care tips, including how to change and care for your ostomy bag, complications to be aware of, and answers to frequently asked questions about living with a colostomy.

After an ileostomy to form a stoma, a high output stoma may develop. This article looks at the causes, symptoms, treatments, and more.

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 ...

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

TikToker Lucy Smith-Butler says she hopes her top tips will help other disabled festival-goers too.

A young boy who was able to accept having a stoma after being given a cuddly toy is raising money to help other children in the same situation. Riley, aged six, from Melksham, had the stoma - a ...

Stoma prolapses are usually “alarming, but not that dangerous,” for patients who have an ostomy, explained Stephanie S. Yates, a nurse practitioner from Duke Cancer Center’s Wound Ostomy Clinic in ...

An animated GIF of a highly magnified view of a single stoma on the leaf of a boat lily (Tradescantia spathacea). The stoma is opening and closing in response to changing levels of carbon dioxide ...