HANNAH Whateley faced every parent’s worst nightmare when her baby girl ate a toy that burned through her stomach.  Araya, ...

Bowel movements will leave your body through it and collect in a special pouch that you’ll empty out. Your health care team will show you how to change your bag and take care of the stoma.

Instead it passes out through the stoma. You wear a bag stuck onto the skin ... t join the remaining ends of colon together. Your surgeon will avoid this if at all possible. You might have a permanent ...

Irrigate the catheter. To do this: Remove the dressing over the stoma and throw it out. Separate the catheter from the drainage bag and drain the contents of the catheter into the basin.

Hannah said: “The doctor came out and said the magnets were pulling all the way through the lining of the bowel. He could have ended up with a stoma bag if his bowel perforated, so thank ...

One-year-old Araya Whateley ended up needing seven hours of emergency surgery to have part of her bowel removed and now has a stoma bag. The magnetic beads belonged to Araya’s nine-year-old sister ...