Ostomy Bag Cleaning Device

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Ostomy bag cleaning device.

Gently clean the skin around your stoma. Lingerie and cummerbunds made to conceal a pouch or hold it in place are available from specialty retailers. Pat your skin dry. When the pouch is removed use warm water and a dry wipe with mild fragrance free soap to clean around the hole in your body which is called the stoma.

The comfort convenience and easy cleaning offered by this product confirms that necessity is truly the motherhood of invention. It s a new exit route for waste if you can t poop or pee the way you usually would. Before i discovered the opodd tm it was a slower and much less thorough job to clean my ostomy bag. 5 454 389 teaches an ostomy bag cleaning device that incorporates a mechanism for introducing water into a colostomy bag and then evacuate the waste material into a storage chamber.

I highly recommend the opodd tm to any ostomate captain doug s. I designed the ez clean system pouch to make my life normal living with a colostomy. An ostomy is a hole made by surgery to allow stool or urine to leave your body through your belly. This device is cumbersome to use and does not provide for a simple cleaning of the colostomy bag without removal from the person.

My name is ken schena and i have a permanent colostomy. The schena ez clean system uses water under pressure to clean the inside of specially designed ez clean pouches and the exposed surfaces of the stoma in less than 3 minutes. Take steps before intimacy to feel more confident. With the other hand pull the pouch up and away from the stoma.

Now that i have the device i know i am cleaning it out better and it is so quick and easy to do. Ask your ostomy nurse about companies that sell these products. Once you have your new pouch cut the flange to fit your stoma and put a little baby oil in the bag to keep stool from sticking to it. Use an opaque pouch or try a pouch cover.

Empty the pouch before removing. The power feed water system is available in both fixed and portable versions. Do not use soaps that have oil or perfumes. Both versions use a pressurized handheld sprayer.

The fixed system hooks up to a toilet water supply semi permanently as shown above left. Gently remove the pouch by pushing the skin down and away from the adhesive skin barrier with one hand. An ostomy bag cleaning device 10 for introducing water into an ostomy bag 12 in order to loosen and evacuate waste contained therein and retain evacuated waste material until sanitarily disposal thereof. Empty and clean your ostomy pouch.

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