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Questions about managing a Stoma Pouch

Ostomy | Last Active: 16 hours ago | Replies (70)

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@harrison221

Because of leakage I change pouches every 3 days. Recently I've discovered that if I spray my skin twice with skin barrier spray before attaching the pouch with the barrier ring installed on the pouch it has not leaked.
Also my Stoma nurse at Mayo told me that you need to cut the hole in your pouch about 1/16 of an inch larger than the Stoma so the barrier ring can creep through between the Stoma and the pouch. If you do it proper you can see a white ring around the Stoma about an hour after changing

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The VON (Victorian Order of Nurses, Ontario, Canada, ) call this turtlenecking.

Update - Cutting the hole 1/8" larger will not work for me. My Stoma is 1 1/16".

After trying this several times I found that it did not work for me. My hole has to be very near the size of the stoma.