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    • Home
    • Before Appt or Procedure
      • At Your Doctor’s Appt
      • Before: Colonoscopy
      • Before: Flex Sig
      • Before: Same Day Surgery
      • Before: Non Colon Surgery
      • Before: Colon Resection
    • After Your Procedure
      • After: Anorectal
      • After: Pilonidal
      • After: Abdomen/Colon Surg
      • Sitz Bath - What is it?
      • Ostomy Care
      • Ostomy Output
      • LARS
      • Drain Care
      • Wound Vac Guide
    • 💩 and Screening
      • Cancer Screening
      • Poop 💩!!!
    • Pelvic & Women's Health
      • Breastfeeding and Surgery
      • Pelvic Floor Basics
      • Endometriosis
    • Dietary
      • Fiber+Water
      • Protein
      • Food+Exercise as Medicine
  • Home
  • Before Appt or Procedure
    • At Your Doctor’s Appt
    • Before: Colonoscopy
    • Before: Flex Sig
    • Before: Same Day Surgery
    • Before: Non Colon Surgery
    • Before: Colon Resection
  • After Your Procedure
    • After: Anorectal
    • After: Pilonidal
    • After: Abdomen/Colon Surg
    • Sitz Bath - What is it?
    • Ostomy Care
    • Ostomy Output
    • LARS
    • Drain Care
    • Wound Vac Guide
  • 💩 and Screening
    • Cancer Screening
    • Poop 💩!!!
  • Pelvic & Women's Health
    • Breastfeeding and Surgery
    • Pelvic Floor Basics
    • Endometriosis
  • Dietary
    • Fiber+Water
    • Protein
    • Food+Exercise as Medicine

Ostomy Care

This is not a substitute for direct care by YOUR doctor. Confirm with your doctor before doing any of the following. 


  • This is only some basic resources and information. Dedicated ostomy care specialists, or enterostomal therapists, are the best sources of information on ostomy care.


  • There are multiple websites with excellent instructions on how to change your ostomy: 
    • https://www.ostomy.org/change-ostomy-pouch/


  • https://www.uchicagomedicine.org/conditions-services/colon-rectal-surgery/ostomy/guide-to-pouching-systems/how-to-use-a-pouching-system


  • https://www.mountsinai.org/health-library/selfcare-instructions/ileostomy-changing-your-pouch


  • https://www.ostomycanada.ca/ostomy-care-basics/general-management/changing-your-pouching-system/


  • If you are worried that your skin is irritated, painful, or just that something is wrong despite doing what you can to fix an issue - try to be seen by a medical professional sooner rather than later. The longer skin is irritated, the worse things can get.


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