An ostomy bag or a pouch is worn on the abdomen to collect stool as it leaves the body through the stoma. However, there are some significant differences between an ileostomy and a colostomy.

The stool draining from a colostomy will be pasty. Ostomy pouch. An ostomy pouch is the bag that collects the stool draining from your ostomy. Skin barrier. The skin barrier is the part of the ostomy ...

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Your surgeon provides this by performing an ileostomy ... eliminates waste into a disposable bag worn over the surgical wound opening, or stoma. A proctocolectomy is a last-resort procedure ...

[11] Patch testing at 48 and 96 hours yielded positive reactions to epoxy resins that were components of the ostomy bag. Mann and colleagues postulated that although frictional irritant dermatitis ...

The ostomy temporarily diverts the stool away from the healing anastomosis to the outside of the body and into an ostomy bag. In most cases, the ostomy is needed only until the anastomosis has ...

The majority (87 of 174) of the ostomy patients in this study were diagnosed ... Data also indicated that lotions containing propylene glycol impaired bag adhesion even after they were allowed ...