Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) is a medical term used to describe conditions that can result in diarrhoea and extreme tummy ...

Eventually, the skin healed," she explained. Having her colon and rectum removed meant she couldn't go to the toilet the ...

A MUM was forced to have her rectum removed and her anus sewn up to save her life – a surgical procedure that’s been dubbed ‘Barbie Butt’. Meghan Cary Brown was 23 when she ...

Your speech and language therapist may be able to offer advice on what you can use at home. You need to clean your stoma often while it is healing. When you are in hospital, your nurse will help you ...

[2,5,9,11,15] Because of the significant mortality and morbidity associated with laparotomy with resection and stoma formation ... The bowel is then allowed to heal while the infant is medically ...

The stoma should be pink or red ... But some colostomies are temporary – their purpose is to let a patient’s bowel heal and recover from a disease or injury. In that case, the patient ...

Ten months ago I nearly died. Not from an illness or a terrible accident, but because I was desperate to improve what I thought was a bodily 'flaw'.

After the colon is healed, the colostomy can be reversed, returning the bowel function to normal. In a colostomy reversal, the two ends of the colon are reconnected and the area where the stoma was ...

Some of the reasons for follow up after apparently curative operation for colorectal cancer are identified below and the difficulties highlighted: Detection of problems related to recent surgical ...