Healthy skin around your stoma is essential for creating a good seal and preventing leaks. Learn how "crusting" can help protect and heal peristomal skin.

I wish I could offer one solid solution to gas noise, but managing stoma noise is a constant battle for those with a stoma. Here are some tips!

It’s important to know what your healthy stoma and peristomal skin look like. There are some symptoms to watch for. Find a list for each in this article.

Shield HealthCare's Ostomy Lifestyle Specialist answers questions about a peristomal hernia. Are they normal? What can I do about them?

Every year, when my "stomaversary" comes around, I take a minute to reflect on where I was in 2011 and the years after surgery.

Here is a video For anyone who missed our recent “Troubleshooting Common Stomal Complications ” webinar, presented by Joy Hooper, RN, BSN, CWOCN, OMS, WCC.

Watch Shield HealthCare's Ostomy Lifestyle Specialist, Laura, as she talks about how to dress with an ostomy in this video.

A stoma is an opening, usually created surgically, to access the stomach or intestine for purposes of feeding or drainage. Your feeding tube enters your stomach or small intestine through the stoma. The skin area around this opening is often referred to as the stoma site. For more information, see related articles and feeding tube resources here:… Continue reading Stoma Definition