WOW THAT NEAT !!

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Well it's true you learn something new every day I was at the hospital having a test done and I was talking with one of the nurses about my s/p tube and she was tell me about they are not that common for young people and she began to tell me about a young person that had a colostomy and it got in his way so he had an internal one made and that he could just cover it up with a bandade and when he needed to "GO" he would just put in a tube and drain it off !!!

My mom had an iliostomy and that thing was just horrible ! and it all that time I never heard on this she said she had olney seen one other of these in 30 years .

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Specializes in Cardiac, PCU, Surg/Onc, LTC, Peds.

I've only seen a few of these in my career (20 yrs). They're called Koch pouches but I'm unsure why more can't or choose not to be done.

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Specializes in Hospice.

It depends where the ostomy is placed whether a person is a candidate for this

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Specializes in Cardiac, PCU, Surg/Onc, LTC, Peds.
It depends where the ostomy is placed whether a person is a candidate for this

I know you couldn't place it for a ileostomy but where would it be accepted for the colon? Or urostomy?

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Specializes in ED.

an urostomy drains continuously, so no not a candidate. It has to do with where the ostomy is placed, if I am right, I think the transverse colon is best? Correct me if I am wrong.....

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I just do not understand why this is not common ? Do all doctors know about this ? My mothers ileostomy was the worst thing I had ever seen in my life and the smell "oh my god" this would have changed her life !!!

I always said that I would rather die then live with one of thouse and I ment it ! even had that in writhing when I had a proseger done once .

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