General Stoma information

• Before Stoma surgery
• What you can expect with Stoma surgery
• Where will your Stoma be?
• After Stoma surgery
• Discharge advice after bowel surgery
• Care at home after Stoma surgery
• Your first days and weeks with a Stoma
• What to eat after Stoma surgery
• Your Stoma diary

• Care routines and bag changes
• Changing your stoma appliance
• How to prepare, apply, empty and remove (please consult the instructions for use supplied with your products)
• Caring for the skin around your Stoma
• Guide to healthy skin around your Stoma
• How to care for skin around a Stoma
• Understanding your skin and Stoma health

• Diet and hydration advice
• Food management with a Stoma
• Food to thicken Stoma output
• Healthy eating with a colostomy
• St Mark’s advice about eating and drinking when you have a high output Stoma

• Tips for dealing with diarrhoea when you have a Stoma
• Self assessment tools for leakage, irritated skin etc
• Types of hernia
• Stoma hernia and hernias with a Stoma
• Hernia: hints & tips
• Overcoming common Stoma problems

Excerise

• The importance of core exercise with a Stoma
• General exercise tips after stoma surgery
• Abdominal exercise with Core 4 – Coloplast
• Exercise diary

Sex

• Sex, intimacy and relationship advice
• Your sexual self after Stoma surgery
• Regaining your sexual confidence following Stoma surgery

Emotions

• Colostomy UK – emotional practical support
• Body image concerns with a Stoma
• Managing your emotions about your body and Ostomy surgery
• SecureStart: next steps
  • SecureStart enrol and go
  • SecureStart traffic light leaflet

Travel

• Travel and holidays
• Travelling with a Stoma

Other

• Going back to work after stoma surgery
• What to wear when you have a Stoma
• Side effects of medication / avoiding a hernia/UTIs