amazing blog :)

You are doing a tremendous service. One petpieve...you constantly call a pouch, a bag. But in this video you talk about putting a pouch cover over a bag. You Ned to be consistent. Most preferred by estimates is to call their appliance a pouch, not a bag.

I would love to be consistent, but that's not realistic for several reasons :

There is no consensus on what it should be called. Some call it a bag, some a pouch, and some an appliance. Different countries also refer to it differently.

But more importantly is I have to make sure that someone looking for for information on an "ostomy pouch" is as likely to find it as someone searching for "ostomy bag".

Same goes with wafers... Some call them Baseplate, others call them flanges, or skin barrier.

I will say that most manufacturers in North America refer to it as an ostomy pouch while most supplies I'm North America will say ostomy bag!

My husband recently had surgery & now has an ileal conduit. I knew absolutely nothing about wearing, using, changing, etc. a pouch. However, your videos are invaluable for information! You're clear, concise, patient, informative and so positive. Thank you one million times!

You're very welcome, Diane! I hope that your husband has been doing well!

In the video u mentioned a cover that helps prevent odor and is charcoal lined but I didn’t see a link for that particular one. If you’d be so kind to share a link or name of the company I’d greatly appreciated it! Thank u!!

Hi Brandi,

That one is the Stomacloak, and I've reviewed it here: https://www.veganostomy.ca/stomacloak-ostomy-pouch-overview/

The official website is https://stomacloak.com/

I got a pouch cover with elastic around the circle and while I was volunteering at the local food bank my cover actually fell off and I didn't notice that it had fallen off until it was pointed out to me. I was so embarrassed. I thought with elastic it would stay on better but it didn't it just fell right off. Ugh!

Hey, Liz. That's frustrating!

In my experience, the ones with an elastic work best if the elastic circle is place under the flange. This is easy to do on Hollister 2pc bags, since they use a "floating flange".

If you use the elastic pouch cover with a 1pc or a different flange design, what I find happens is that the elastic tightens and pushes the pouch cover off. But it sounds like you've already experienced that 😲