Medically reviewed by Robert Burakoff, MD Ileostomy and colostomy are two types of ostomy surgery that treat diseases and ...

Some people with existing bowel problems might find a permanent ileostomy easier ... your operation the stoma nurse will help you look after and clean the stoma, and change the bags. This is called ...

Stomas are an opening in a person's abdomen with a pouch placed over it to collect faeces or urine in a stoma bag after they have ... for conditions such as bowel cancer, Crohn's disease ...

Doctors are used to seeing lots of patients with bowel problems. The five red-flag symptoms ... He's woken up covered in s**t [because of the stoma bag] and been like, 'never mind'.

A MUM thought she’d caught a stomach bug from snotty kids – until doctors told her she was “12 hours from death”. Chloe ...

Diagnosis High-output stoma with malabsorption as a consequence of repeated small-bowel ... problems of dehydration, hypomagnesemia and weight loss, due to a large stomal output (emptying bag ...

Never again will I feel the agonising pain of inflammatory bowel disease. Today, thanks to my Barbie butt (and my stoma bag too) I can look ahead to my future and know that IBD will never stand in ...

A nursery worker is warning people not to think they are 'too young' for cancer after she was diagnosed with bowel cancer.