Don't throw away that empty Parmesan cheese bottle just yet. Try out one of these hacks for reusing it and giving it a new ...

The demand for convex ostomy care bags is surging due to their critical role in improving the quality of life for patients who have undergone ostomy surgery. Ostomy procedures, which involve the ...

He made the sentiments on Friday when Women’s Coalition Against Cancer (WOCACA) donated 85 reusable colostomy bags to alleviate a resource deficit at the facility. Colostomy bags, also called ...

Your stoma bag catches your stools. After an ostomy reversal, you'll be able to empty your bowels normally. You and your surgeon will decide if ostomy reversal is a good option. It often depends ...

“Lisa’s saliva dripped into a little bag that was attached to her neck,” said Dr. Demarest. (Think of it as a mini colostomy bag). I wondered how rare something like this is, so I asked Dr ...

it's normal to wonder about the bag. It lays pretty flat against your skin. But there are other pouch systems you can choose from. You can get support at the United Ostomy Associations of America.

She was given a colostomy bag so that she could continue to eat and use the bathroom and then underwent rounds of chemotherapy. Her treatment has resulted in her being unable to have more babies ...

Four years ago, after discovering a need for an ostomy supply pantry in West Virginia, she started keeping more supplies in her closet to give to others.

"I was admitted and had surgery the next day." Surgeons didn't remove the tumor at that point but gave Bildhauer a colostomy bag. He then underwent five weeks of radiation and five months of ...

Despite his colon bursting from opioid misuse — at one point he was taking as many as 50 Vicodin a day — and spending months in a coma, then nearly a year with a colostomy bag, Perry began to ...

The output for an ileostomy is looser than that of a colostomy. An ileostomy bag - which enables drainage into the toilet between three to six times a day' - is also worn. A urostomy refers to ...