The operation is called a colostomy. The surgeon will attach the end of your colon to ... Your health care team will show you how to change your bag and take care of the stoma.

Crohn's sufferer Bethany Townsend, 23, became an overnight internet sensation after an image she posted of herself in a bikini with a colostomy bag scored more than eleven million views on social ...

An ostomy pouch is the bag that collects the stool draining from your ostomy ... apply the skin barrier on the skin around the ostomy. 4. Next, attach the pouch, if it was separate. 5. Clamp across ...

An ostomy bag or a pouch is worn on the abdomen to collect ... This is when the end of the small bowel is attached to the rectum or the anus. An ileostomy might be temporary.

When you have a colostomy or ileostomy the end of your bowel is brought ... This can mean changing the stoma bag at least 5 times a day. Removing a 1 piece stoma bag several times a day could result ...