The colostomy diet is an eating plan that doctors recommend for people recovering from colostomy surgery. While a colostomy does not affect a person’s ability to eat or digest food, eating certain ...

How Will a Colostomy Change My Life? If you get a colostomy, your medical team will talk to you while you’re still in the hospital after the surgery about how to take care of it and will give you some ...

Doctors may recommend a colostomy if the bowel becomes diseased or damaged. This procedure involves cutting into the abdominal wall to drain stool from the colon. Any surgery ending in “ostomy” ...

Having a colostomy means your poo no longer passes out of your body through your anus. Instead, it passes out through the stoma. You wear a bag that sticks to your skin over the stoma to collect the ...