There has been quite a lot in the media lately about ostomies – that is people with colostomy or ileostomy bags. With photographs of people flashing their stomas going viral and the #GetYourBellyOut ...

World Ostomy Day takes place every three years on the first Saturday in October. To mark this day on 2nd October, the stoma support charities (Colostomy UK, Ileostomy & Internal Pouch Association (IA) ...

It’s estimated one in 500 people in the UK live with a stoma (or ostomy) - a surgical opening made in the skin as a way for urine and faeces to leave the body. It often has a bag attached to it to ...

A stoma is an opening from an area inside your body to the outside, according to the U.S. National Library of Medicine. (Photo: Getty Images) You may not know the word for it, but odds are you've seen ...

A mother whose Facebook photo showing how she was forced to change her colostomy bag on the floor due to a lack of facilities was shared thousands of times is leading calls for organisations to make ...

I love having a colostomy bag. Don’t believe me? I’m serious. I can even poop while driving… talk about the ultimate multi-tasking device. And I can guarantee that my teenage self would be cringing at ...

Meet Buttony, a bear that is helping children all over the UK who have an ostomy bag smile again. Buttony is a special bear for children having surgery to create an ostomy, the bear has had a similar ...

Advances in ostomy care and maintenance have resulted in more normal lives following colorectal cancer surgery. For just over 21 years, Justin Blum dealt with ulcerative colitis. Finally, a ...