Wheelchair For Sale

We take this opportunity to greet each and everyone a Blessed Christmas Season.

We are posting this ad for anyone interested:

For anyone interested to buy a brand new manual wheelchair, removable arm rest and leg rest, stainless steel, 24" inch wheel diameter, sportsmatic type b, made in "House with No Steps" or Tahanan Walang Hagdan, Please contact us. We will send photos for those interested. Negotiable price cost. Please check Tahanan Price costing. I am selling the wheelchair much lower.

Location: Near Mindanao Avenue, parallel to Veterans Hospital and/or(Trinoma and SM north ave)
I thank CF for giving me this chance to write this post.
Email us at colostomyfriends@gmail.com

Posted by Joseph
Colostomy Friends Volunteer

Food Reference Chart

Please check ostomy.org for other references.
Merry Christmas to all.


Colostomy Friends
Bert
Volunteer

Maligayang Pasko

Mga Paalala:
1. Huwag kalimutan na uminom ng maraming tubig lalo na sa mga salu salo kapag may mga party.
2. Kung maiiwasan ang softdrinks ay mas mainam.
3. Hindi sagabal na may Colostomy Bag para magdiwang ngayong Pasko 2012 at salubungin ang 2013.
4. Magbigay ng oras para mag-dasal para sa magandang kalusugan.

Maligayang Pasko sa Lahat.

Colostomy Friends
Chit Dacanay

COLOSTOMY BOWEL CONTROL

COLOSTOMY BOWEL CONTROL


Patients with a right-sided or upper colostomy do not have as much remaining colon as those with a left-sided or lower colostomy. Because of this, there is usually too little colon left in a lower colostomy to absorb enough water to make a solid stool. A lower colostomy cannot be controlled by irrigation, but instead behaves very much like an ileostomy, with fairly continuous discharge.

The left-sided colostomy is often described as a ‘dry’ colostomy since it usually discharges formed stool. One has the choice of attempting to manage this type of colostomy by either trained control or irrigation control. Only 1/3 of the people who at-tempt to train themselves to control the lower colostomy without irrigation are successful in doing so. This control is more easily and satisfactorily achieved by irrigation. However, there are some patients who can’t achieve irrigation control because they have an ‘irritable bowel’. This problem has nothing to do with the colostomy. It is just part of some people’s makeup. Some people, even before they have their colostomy, may have had very irregular bowel habits. They retain these habits after the colostomy is performed.

Regular irrigation does not assure regularity with irritable bowel syndrome. When this condition exists, the physician will some-times suggest that the patient dispense with irrigation, since it does not produce the desired regular pattern. People may become frustrated by trying to achieve this. People with an irritable bowel situation should treat the colostomy much like an ileostomy by wearing an ostomy appliance all of the time.





Source: Saskatoon Ostomy Association Bulletin, August 2012

Thanks to InsideOut
11.20.2012
/jasmine

People with 2 Colostomy Bags

One of our readers asked why some have 2 colostomy bags:

The following are the possible answers gathered from friends.

Photo courtesy of Phil Esgate (http://philostomate.blogspot.com/)

1. Possibly to rest one stoma for awhile? One may be more for mucous rather than legit output.

2.  They sometimes have two after a difficult surgery with a contaminated abdomen. One will produce only mucus. Or they could have a colostomy/ileostomy and a urostomy. Urostomy would be if urinary bladder was removed due to cancer or trauma.

3. Yes. If there are birth defects/injuries where there is a neurogenic branded such as spinal cord injury or spina bifida. Spina bifida patients usually have a "button" urostomy. So many situations that can lead to it.

4. A double barrel ostomy forms 2 stomas. One is nonfunctioning meaning that no feces is expelled, yet mucous is discharged so sometimes it is called a mucous fistula. Sometimes this is sewn shut and left in abdomen which then expels mucous through there.

Thanks by Clostomy Friends
Please join our National Federation of Ostomates. Email us at colostomyfriends@gmail.com (Jean)

Ostomy Wound Care tips

Caring for a Wound

Special care must always be taken when caring for a wound:

1. Before dressing a wound, clean it thoroughly with sponges and cleansing solution. Do not allow scab to form in the wound which will cause infection. Use a gauze with saline solution to scrub of the wound. In case it bleeds, just put pressure with gauze until bleeding stops.
2. Also, remove any body hair which also contributes to infection.
3. Pat the wound dry with a different, clean sponge.
4. When the wound is clean and dry, apply the dressings appropriate to the severity of the wound.
5. When removing old dressings, always remove one layer at a time, not all at once.

Remember:
Calmoseptine and Desitine is for rashes and allergies while Silver Sulfadiazine is for wound treatment.

You can add anymore tips for ostomy wound care.
Salamat po - Jean Pablo

Ostomy Associations in the Philippines

Do you want to know the different ostomy associations all over the Philippines?

The National Federation has established several chapters in the different regions. The different ostomy associations in the Philippines will help patients and colorectal survivors through certified trainors from doctors and patients as well. It is only the National Fed that gives certified training that was conducted with the help of the Asia South Pacific Ostomy Association and in partnership with the Deparment of Health.

The distribution of colostomy bags are secondary, we form strong and solid support groups all over the Philippines.

We are growing with a team of surgeons and nurses and patients. The NFOP, Inc welcomes you.