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 ...
Public toilets in north Devon are to be made stoma-friendly, the local authority has said. North Devon Council said 11 of its ...
Adele Roberts, who was diagnosed with stage two bowel cancer in October 2021, has completed the London Marathon wearing a stoma. (PA) Adele Roberts has been awarded with a Guinness World Record after ...
Earlier this month, a man who did not want to live with a stoma died after a judge ruled life-support treatment could end. His story caused an outpouring of shock amongst the stoma community and ...
A teenager will have a stoma bag for the rest of her life after what she thought was period pain turned out to be ulcerative colitis (UC). Sophia Haden, 18, said she had to go to the toilet 20 times a ...
If you’ve had an ostomy – a surgery that reroutes the way waste leaves your body – for ulcerative colitis (UC), the idea of exercise can seem intimidating. You might worry whether you’ll injure ...
Adele Roberts has revealed she may be forced to undergo surgery after being unable to return her prolapsed stoma into it's bag, three years after having colostomy surgery following a battle with colon ...
But look again at the results of that photoshoot here, and just above his belt is the singer-songwriter’s stoma – a permanent opening in his bowel that allows his faeces to collect in a pouch. For Tom ...
In January 2020, Lauren Woodhall, 22, suddenly began to need the toilet up to 40 times a day. Anything she ate or drank would go straight through her in a matter of seconds. It got to the point that ...
Before and after my stoma was fitted in an emergency life-saving operation (Picture: Hattie Gladwell) Despite hundreds of thousands of people living with stoma bags in the UK due to conditions such as ...
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