For any healthy person, thoughts of having a stoma can be daunting, but what’s necessary to know here is that a stoma doesn’t aim for making a person’s life complicated, or unhealthy. Instead, it helps that person to spend a healthier life. That said, the key to living an active and healthy life with a stoma is to be good at using the stoma care products. The stoma is a diversion that redirects stool or urine from its related tract and allows it to pass through the opening in the abdominal wall. That means a stoma doesn’t have the sphincter muscles that allow a person to control the waste evacuation. When there is a bowel movement, and bodily waste needs to evacuate from the body, the stoma lets that evacuation to happen. The only way an ostomate can avoid his hands or clothes from getting dirty is to use stoma care products. In this article, we are going to talk about a few, but most crucial, stoma care products. Closed bag A closed bag is the one whose bottom is sewn, which essentially makes it a disposable ostomy pouch. This ostomy bag is ideal for patients with colostomy that produce more firm stool. The patient needs to change the ostomy bag when it’s full. Open/drainable bag As the name suggests, this bag allows the patient to empty the bad. That means you can use this bag again after getting the stomal output out of it. These ostomy bags generally have a clip at the bottom. Removing that clip allows the inner content to flow out of the ostomy bag. This bag is ideal for the patients whose waste has a liquid consistency. Patients with ileostomies are also eligible to use these bags. Urostomy bag From the perspective of functionality, a urostomy bag is similar to an open/drainable bag. The only difference is a small tap in the bottom that allows the urine to flow out of the urostomy bag. One-piece ostomy bag A one-piece ostomy bag is a single unit with the pouch and the skin barrier integrated into it. That means if you want to change the pouch, you are going to have to get the wafer off from the skin. Two-piece ostomy bag A two piece-ostomy bag is a pouching system consisting of the bag and the skin barrier as separate but connectible units. You can connect the skin barrier with the peristomal skin around the stoma, and then connect the bag with that wafer. A significant benefit of this ostomy bag is that you can change the bag portion without detaching the skin wafer from the skin. Skincare products
Stomal output can be highly irritating for the skin around the stoma. The good news is that several skincare products are here to help an ostomate from prepping the skin for the skin barrier to removing adhesive from the peristomal skin.
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