Unless you have to wear one, or know someone who does, you probably haven’t given much thought to colostomy bag design. The pouches collect waste that has been redirected from the colon or bladder ...

Urostomy and colostomy bags are used in two different types of ostomies. Also called stomas, these are surgical openings meant to create alternatives for waste to leave your body. A urostomy bag is ...

Sometimes people with Crohn's disease need surgery. One type of surgery is the creation of a colostomy or an ileostomy, to bring a part of the intestine to the abdomen wall. The procedure creates an ...

ALTHOUGH public awareness surrounding colostomy bags has improved, many myths remain prevalent about what it means to live with a colostomy bag. Due to this, ostomates – people with a stoma – find it ...

Every year in the UK, an estimated 6,400 people get permanent colostomies, where an end of the intestine is diverted out of the body through a hole in the belly. Which means that, from then on, your ...

A woman from Surrey describes her colostomy bag as “live saving” and allowed her to travel the world. Gillian Wyatt, 64, from Cheam, noticed that she was suffering intermittent bleeding, but thought ...