Patient/caregiver was educated on picking the appropriate size wafer/skin barrier for ileostomy as follows:
- Wafers can come in various sizes, allowing different maximum stoma sizes that you can cut on them. Some wafers could allow cut to fit a larger sized stoma and some others could allow cut to fit a stoma of smaller size. This indicates the various different sizes of the stoma individuals can have.
- Read through your ileostomy manufacturer’s guide and pick the wafer that allows cut to fit your stoma appropriately. While picking a wafer, make sure it allows cut to fit your stoma appropriately and also has the adhesive along the edge of wafer uncompromised, which helps a good fix of the wafer to the skin around the stoma.
- Certain wafers can be molded and do not require a cut. After marking the line indicating your stoma size on the back of the wafer, it could be molded along the line drawn to fit the size of your stoma.
