Ostomy Care and Tips
Featuring ostomy care guides, tips and tricks, and advice on how to manage a stoma.
Keeping Hydrated with an Ostomy (w/ video)
Dehydration sucks, and anyone without a colon has likely been told by their nurse or doctor that maintaining adequate hydration is crucial. While it can be a challenge to keep up with fluid intake, there are many ways to do it. In this article, I’d like to share some practical tips that I’ve used myself, along with tips that have worked for others.
This information is focused on ileostomates, but many of these strategies can be used to help prevent dehydration in other circumstances, including diarrhea caused by IBD or for other types of ostomies.
Pancaking: A Headache for Ostomates since the 1800’s (w/ video)
I love pancakes, but I don’t like pancaking! In the world of ostomies, pancaking can be a frustrating, challenging and sometimes a messy ordeal. Pancaking applies mostly to colostomates, although some ileostomates with thick stool might experience this too.
The Winter Ostomate : Shoveling Snow
Love it or hate it, winter is here, and for many people, this means shoveling snow. For an ostomate, this could increase the risk of developing a parastomal hernia (one of my biggest fears), so it’s extremely important to take special care.
Below you’ll find some strategies to help deal with snow.
Is Your Ostomy Wafer Cutting You? Here’s a Fix (with video)
I’m pretty happy with the way the skin around my stoma looks, but I’ve had my fair share of challenges with my skin, especially as I was learning to adjust post-surgery.
