WATCHING her son doubled over in agony on the hospital bed, Hannah Amer begged doctors to act quickly to remove the metal ...

The former Made In Chelsea star, 34, revealed on Instagram that she and fiancé Ryan Libbey had travelled to Paris with their ...

For thousands of stoma users, life in London is lived on a ‘loo leash’ – a daily existence dictated by the availability of ...

Ellesmere Town Council are pleased to be able to support Lingen Davies Bins for Boys National Campaign to provide access to ...

A woman is documenting her experiencing living with a stoma bag – including shopping for a wedding dress – because she wants to "normalise it and break the stigma". Poppy Williams, 27, from ...

In a recent post Poppy shared advice about what it is like to shop for a wedding dress when you have a stoma A woman is documenting her experiencing living with a stoma bag – including shopping ...

The surgeon will attach the end of your colon to the stoma. Bowel movements will leave your body through it and collect in a special pouch that you’ll empty out. Your health care team will show ...

Also called a K-pouch, a continent ileostomy is a connection of the end of the small intestine, called the ileum, to the skin of your abdomen. A surgeon makes it so that waste can leave your body ...

An ileostomy bag - which enables drainage into the toilet between three to six times a day' - is also worn. A urostomy refers to an opening for a person's urine specifically. For this ...

"My parents kept on changing my clothes and when I was eight years old (in 1998), they took me back to hospital, where I had a surgically created opening (stoma) in the abdomen to allow urine to pass ...