After the surgery, waste is collected on the outside of the body with an ostomy bag. Today’s ostomy bags come in a variety of ...

Life after an ostomy surgery, such as ileostomy or colostomy, involves adapting to an ostomy bag for waste collection. This often brings many questions: Can I still do my usual activities?

Instead it passes out through the stoma. You wear a bag stuck onto the skin over the stoma to collect your poo. You might have a temporary colostomy with surgery to remove part of the colon. This is ...

You may need an ostomy bag either permanently or temporarily after an ostomy surgery, which changes the way waste leaves your body. During an ostomy surgery, the surgeon creates a new pathway for ...

A woman who created her own ostomy bag covers after having bowel surgery has made more than 600 to give to others. Kimberley Swales, 44, from Yeadon, West Yorkshire, had an ostomy - where part of ...

The bowel ends are hooked back up together. The procedure allows for the functioning of the anal sphincter and eliminates the need for a colostomy bag after surgery. The major difference between this ...

A mum died unexpectedly after a routine surgery to have her colostomy surgery reversed and stoma removed, an inquest has ...

Colostomy. A colostomy is an opening that connects the large bowel, or colon, to the skin. The stool draining from a colostomy will be pasty. Ostomy pouch. An ostomy pouch is the bag that collects the ...

The colostomy bag saved my life ... and challenge the outdated stereotypes of what people can achieve after stoma surgery".

Your stoma does not have muscles to control when your stool can come out so a bag is used to collect your stool. “After my surgery, I used the colostomy bag for two years. Then I went back to ...

A 68-year-old cancer survivor has become the first to conquer remote Pakistan peak alongside his 74-year-old climbing partner despite undergoing life-altering surgery that left him living with a ...