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 ...

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

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 ...

A surgeon may create a temporary stoma when a part of your gut is diseased or injured. The opening allows the diseased area time to heal. In contrast, a surgeon might create a permanent stoma, which ...

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 ...

In some cases, stomas are formed on a temporary basis, to let the bowel heal or to help resolve an intestinal narrowing. Some patients may have their stoma reversed, or it might have to be made ...

Jackie says that it's possible to live life to the full when you have a stoma Living with a stoma is not always easy. Natalie Toper from London spoke to the BBC about her reaction when she found ...

A breathing stoma is a hole in your neck that you breathe through after surgery to your larynx. You might have a temporary stoma or a permanent stoma. Coping with breathing through a hole in your neck ...

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

Here is some of the terminology that may be used: A stoma may be necessary if the colon needs time to heal or if the rectum ...

Placenta grafting yields remarkable results for third-degree burns. Third-degree burns are being healed using placenta. The use of placenta in medicine is not new, but the results of Mary Townsend ...