Video: Great Comebacks From Ostomy Surgery

Gina Flores
Caregiver Advocate | Shield HealthCare
09/27/11  10:29 PM PST

Featured video: Great Comebacks® award recipients from the past 25 years share their personal, true stories of perseverance and triumph. Experience their darkest and most rewarding moments through the road to recovery and positive new beginnings after ostomy surgery.

Great Comebacks® is sponsored by ConvaTec in partnership with the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation (CCFA), the United Ostomy Associations of America Inc. (UOAA), the Intestinal Disease Education and Awareness Society (IDEAS), Youth Rally and the Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses (WOCN) Society.


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For the past few months, I've found my stool has been pasty and sticky. Please tell me what to do to prevent ostomy "pancaking" from sticky stool.|For the past few months, I've found my stool has been pasty and sticky. Please tell me what to do to prevent ostomy "pancaking" from sticky stool.
Troy
The first thing I would suggest is to make sure you're drinking enough fluids throughout the day.
 
Drinking fluids will help make stool less sticky ...


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