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 ...

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 ...

Prolapsed stoma is when a piece of your intestine pushes out through the stoma, or opening, in your belly. It’s a possible complication of colostomy or ileostomy surgery. A prolapsed stoma may look ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Belinda Smith: A stoma is a portal in your body, it is most often built in during something like bowel ...

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 ...

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 ...

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