Due to an injury I sustained nearly nine years ago, I sometimes experience knee pain. I’m constantly researching new ways to treat my pain. Have you dealt with aggravating knee pain for an extended period of time? Consider visiting an orthopedic doctor near you. This individual can likely diagnose what is causing your discomfort. Depending on your unique situation, your physician might recommend you undergo physical therapy. Your doctor may also prescribe you an anti-inflammatory drug. Changing your diet might also help you feel better. On this blog, I hope you will discover ingenious ways to help you recover from constant knee pain. Enjoy!
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When you first come home after having ostomy surgery, you may experience a mix of emotions. Many patients are happy to be rid of the symptoms of the condition that made the ostomy necessary. At the same time, adjusting to having a stoma to care for can be really hard. Here are some tips and tricks that will help you cope and adapt to this change.
Keep the area around your stoma well shaved.
Many patients initially have trouble getting their ostomy patch to stick. Shaving the area around your stoma will really help. At first, make sure you shave every day for maximum adhesion. Over time, you can start to spread out your shaving sessions a bit more. You may eventually find you can go three or four days without shaving. An electric shaver tends to make shaving the easiest in this delicate area.
Change your bag when you first wake up, and before your shower.
Patients with new stomas often struggle to change their bag because their stoma is constantly allowing contents to come out. You can avoid this by changing your bag when you first wake up and before you eat, when intestinal contents are less likely to be flowing. You can also change your bag right before a shower, which gives you the chance to shower without a bag and then put a new bag on when you're clean and freshly shaved.
Make a cut in your patch if it's not lying flat.
If you are trying to stick the ostomy patch on and it is not lying flat, then cut one diagonal slit in the patch. This will make it better able to mold to the contour of your belly, so you do not get gaps that could lead to odors and leaks.
Wipe with saline wipes.
You will want to wipe around your stoma when changing your bag, but using a baby wipe or an adult wipe can cause some stinging. What you really want are saline wipes, which contain a simple mixture of salt and water. You can buy these from ostomy supply shops. If you are out of saline wipes or cannot find them, you can instead squirt some saline on a gauze pad, and use that. Do not use cotton; it can leave strands behind on your stoma.
With the tips above, you should soon adapt to having a stoma and an ostomy bag.
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