An ostomy is a surgery that creates a hole to allow stool (poop) or urine (pee) to leave your body through your belly. It’s a new exit route for waste if you can’t poop or pee the way you ...

After ostomy surgery, your nurse will explain in detail how to care for your stoma and change your ostomy bag. Here is a quick review of what you need to know to keep your stoma clean and healthy ...

Learning that you need an ostomy to help manage your inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) might seem daunting at first. The surgery redirects poop to exit through a stoma (an opening on your lower ...

Instead it passes out through the colostomy (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 ...

Dylan Carpenter, MSN, RN, CWOCN, PCCN, MEDSURG-BC, a certified wound, ostomy and continence nurse in the Division of Trauma & Acute Care Surgery, recently received two prestigious awards at the 2025 ...

How to provide care and support for people with a stoma, including types of urinary and faecal stomas and recognising and managing common stoma complications. This is a Self-assessment article and ...

This often has negative physical and mental health consequences. An ostomate is a person who has undergone ostomy surgery, a procedure that creates an opening in the body to divert the flow of ...