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LOWELL — A man was arrested Tuesday after allegedly removing his colostomy bag and hurling it at hospital staff and police officers during a messy confrontation at Lowell General Hospital’s Saints ...

A colostomy and ileostomy is where the bowel is brought onto the surface of the tummy (abdomen). Your poo no longer passes out of your body through your back passage. Instead it passes out through the ...

Although it changes everyday life in terms of how you deal with urine and stool, that's not the only shift. Sex and intimacy with an ostomy bag can come with challenges. "In this situation, you can ...

An ostomy pouch is a collection system you wear on your body following a lifesaving ostomy surgery, which reroutes how your body expels waste. An ostomy pouch collects urine or feces from a stoma, an ...

The UAB Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery’s Wound, Ostomy and Continence care team received the 2025 Employer Recognition Award from the Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nursing Certification ...

Dr. Andreas M. Kaiser explains how a colostomy may preserve a patient’s health and help to avoid colorectal cancer complications. Although a permanent colostomy can serve as a life-saving measure for ...

How Will a Colostomy Change My Life? If you get a colostomy, your medical team will talk to you while you’re still in the hospital after the surgery about how to take care of it and will give you some ...

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An ostomy bag is an umbrella term for the types of bags that collect waste from surgical openings in your intestines or bladder. A colostomy bag is a type of ostomy bag used to collect stool. Share on ...