The reason why colostomy and ileostomy can be confused is that they both involve a surgeon fashioning an opening from the intestine through the skin of the abdominal wall. A colostomy is performed ...

An ostomy is a surgically created opening on your abdomen to drain stool. It is the end of the intestine that can be seen on the skin of your belly. There are two types of ostomies: ileostomy and ...

I was 21 when I first became an ileostomy patient. An ileostomy is when the last part of the small intestine (ileum) is connected to a hole in the abdomen called a stoma, which allows stool to leave ...

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INDUSTRIAL advances in recent years, particularly in the fields of plastics and adhesives, have done much to lighten the load carried by patients burdened with an artificial anus. The cumbersome, odor ...

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It’s important to know the difference between a colostomy bag and an ileostomy bag. Both of these are types of stomas, but while they sound similar, they’re very different. The clue is in the name. If ...