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Stoma
A stoma is a surgically created hole that creates a connection between the digestive tract and the skin so that liquid food can be put into the stomach, or liquid waste can leave the intestine.
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A 40-year old asked:
How would i clean my stoma?
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A 35-year old asked:
How should I care for a stoma site?
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A 24-year old asked:
What are some common stoma problems?
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A 66-year old female asked:
Are stoma reversals always successful?
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A 39-year old asked:
How many stoma end reversals are successful?
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A 32-year old asked:
What should healing stoma tissues look like?
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A 23-year old asked:
What is the stoma like and where is it located?
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A 45-year old asked:
What can cause my to stoma keep going up in size?
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A 33-year old asked:
Can anyone tell me is it painful to have an operation for a stoma?
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A 16-year old asked:
What should I wear to cover the ileostomy stoma?
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A 50-year old asked:
What do you call patients that need a stoma?
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A 29-year old asked:
I have a stoma hernia what do you know about it?
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A 24-year old female asked:
Have a colostomy. Have new, strong, bad/unusual odor from stoma (2days now). Should I be concerned?
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A 35-year old female asked:
I have bladder extrophy. I've had 30 surgery. I now have a stoma which leaks alot. Can a stoma be reversed?
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A 24-year old female asked:
Pain on stoma and pain with any ouput from stoma (not hard). surgeon wont see me. next step/potential causes?
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A 58-year old female asked:
My dad is 90 years old. His ostemy bleeds between the skin and stoma. Not much. Is it something to be concerned about?
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A 45-year old female asked:
How common is it to use a prior stoma (closed 2yrs, nonsurgical) to place another GTube? Rate of success without complications? First GTube ws painful
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A 30-year old asked:
What could cause bleeding from the stoma site on neck following a voice box removal 7 months ago?
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A 24-year old female asked:
Issues w/my stoma. felt inside& feels likecolon has sharply turned to left so the stool has to navigate a sharp turn to come out. Normal?
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A 24-year old female asked:
What would cause some foods, in this case watermelon and cantaloupe flesh (NOT seeds), to come out in stoma output just as it went in (undigested)?
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A 44-year old female asked:
Is a grannuloma painful? My daughter had sudden intense pain yesterday's trach change. Continued to note pain to bedtime. No blood. Could stoma spasm?
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A 24-year old female asked:
Have a colostomy. stoma suddenly shrunk in size over past 4-6 days--has not changed in the past 4 months. I am 6months post op. should I be concerned?
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A 53-year old female asked:
I have a knot the size of a golfball on the lower right side of my stomache..its not eeally sore..didn't know ot was there till I was rubbing my stoma?
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A 58-year old asked:
Barium Enma test requires i drink a prep & enema 4 evacuation. But i have an ostomy bag and stoma. Should I take the prep if my rectum is inactive?
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A 60-year old female asked:
Just had a colostomy reversal and bleeding from the stoma incision, just came home from hospital yesterday?
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A 18-year old female asked:
Im getting a button gj tube for my first surgical feeding tube any idea why i don't need a long tube first for the stoma to form?
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A 53-year old female asked:
I suffer with chrohns and I have a colostomy and the skin around the stoma burns so bad that it brings tears to my eyes. Do you have any suggestions?
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A 55-year old female asked:
What are good exercises to do to flatten stomach with s stoma (colostomy in 2003). Permanent colostomy.
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A member asked:
My Mother had a colostomy back in October 2012..all has been going pretty good til today, and her stoma is swollen and enlarged....What might cause it?
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A 47-year old female asked:
1 month colon resection, no stoma. Bowel w/ some bright red blood, is this normal?
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