Rachel Cooper, 43, was sent home from hospital with an untreated birth injury and is still suffering years later ...

While advances in stoma bags have made them easier to use and live with, you may still be interested in possible alternatives. These depend on your specific condition. A colostomy bag (pouch) is a ...

How you care for your colostomy stoma and ostomy bag can vary from person to person. For example, how often you change your bag depends on your output and the type of bag you’re using. A colostomy is ...

Tired of being embarrassed and hiding her colostomy bags, a former model living with Crohn's disease decided she was no longer going to let her condition control her life. To celebrate her new ...

A Crohn's patient has raised awareness of the realities of living with the disease - including using a colostomy bag - by writing on Facebook about how people are insensitive towards those with the ...

Doctors may recommend a colostomy if the bowel becomes diseased or damaged. This procedure involves cutting into the abdominal wall to drain stool from the colon. Any surgery ending in “ostomy” ...

Colostomy prolapse is a complication of colostomy surgery where the bowel protrudes through the stoma. This complication can make it hard to care for the stoma and may affect quality of life. A ...