When you have a colostomy or ileostomy the end of your bowel is brought through an opening on your tummy (abdomen). The opening is called a stoma. If the small bowel (ileum) is brought out onto the ...

A stoma is an opening in your belly's wall that a surgeon makes in order for waste to leave your body if you can't have a bowel movement through your rectum. You might get one if you have ...

A recent post shared advice about what it is like to shop for a wedding dress when you have a stoma fitted. Ms Williams said she needed to consider how the outline of a stoma bag would look in a ...

TransPennine Express (TPE) announced this week that all of its accessible station toilets would have disposal facilities to be "stoma friendly". TPE accessibility lead Chris Jeffery said the ...

Stomatal closure occurs in response to a variety of stresses, including high CO 2 levels, darkness, low air humidity, drought and ozone 6,7.Both groups find that plants with a mutated SLAC1 gene ...

"In the six years I've had a stoma, I've had one toilet that's been completely accessible for me," says Emma Sellars. "It is a real downer to be honest." The 23-year-old from Lincoln has been ...

The process involves putting water into your colon through the stoma, causing the colon to empty. Irrigation is most effective about an hour after a meal, which is when the colon is most likely to ...

A woman diagnosed with rectal cancer who was faced with the possibility of having a stoma for the rest of her life has said she is "so glad" she went for a clinical trial. Sharon Price, 51, from ...