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 ...

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 ...

Through this hole, air enters and leaves your windpipe (trachea) and lungs. You can see when and how you might have a breathing stoma in our surgery section. You might have a temporary or a permanent ...

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 ...

Keiran had his first stoma operation in May last year, while he needed a second surgery in December to completely remove his colon after complications continued. Despite his fears around such a ...