Ostomy Wound Care

An ostomy refers to the management and care of Intestine of the human body. This indicates when a human intestine is injured, it needs and requires some time to heal or it may require some area of the organ to get removed, the surgeon name this process as Ostomy.

To create this process a part of the colon is removed from the intestine via a small piece of patient’s abdominal end and an opening named Stoma is then occur. To manage the waste of the patient’s body a pouch is then connected after the surgery over the Stoma to collect the garbage.

There are usually three types of Ostomy which are:

Colostomy: where a part of the colon is removed through the abdomen

Ileostomy: This is a surgery of small bowel where a J pouch or Kock pouch has been connected

Urostomy: This is a surgery of urinary bladder, and the bag is attached to collect the waste.

Management and care of wound:

Initially, supervision and control of such injury may require or need lots of tedious jobs, but later it becomes and natural and daily practice.

Regular touch with nurse help to manage the long wound way rather other practices may need proper knowledge through people around the patient and adequate care of the affected area.

The patient should keep the area clean and hold the skin protected and use of proper skin protection products if needed. One should need to ensure the barrier between the holes is molded in the right size and shape.

Sometimes the area may undergo some skin irritation and allergy. In some cases, the city gets affected with fungus and bacteria, and skin gets irritated with antibiotics — this need to have immediate attention by the physician and patient’s nurse and need to be cured with proper topical medication over the area.

When the barrier gets removed forcefully, it gets irritated, and it requires to be protected from getting in touch with stool or other adhesives present in the pouch or surgery products.

Some of the typical management of wound are washing the skin and let pat dried, sprinkle stoma powder, wipe off the dust gently to avoid the stinging smell and regular touch with the nurse.