Debbie Kinder of Charleston, West Virginia has used an ostomy bag for around four years. Her nonprofit, Kinder's Closet, provides free ostomy supplies to anyone who needs them.

"If we don't talk about it, if we don't teach people, how are they going to know to accept us for who we are?" says Jessica Grossman, who founded the nonprofit Uncover Ostomy Jessica Grossman was ...

The stool draining from a colostomy will be pasty. Ostomy pouch. An ostomy pouch is the bag that collects the stool draining from your ostomy. Skin barrier. The skin barrier is the part of the ostomy ...

When you have a colostomy or ileostomy the end of your bowel is brought ... This can mean changing the stoma bag at least 5 times a day. Removing a 1 piece stoma bag several times a day could result ...