Patient/caregiver was educated on caring for the ileostomy site and skin around as follows: Use a fresh towel wet in warm water to clean the peristomal skin. Make sure the water is not hot, which can lead to a burn injury. If using the same towel to clean the skin around the stoma and the stoma, clean the skin around the stoma first and then the stoma. Cleaning the stoma first and then cleaning the skin [...]

Patient/caregiver was educated on caring for the ileostomy site and skin around as follows: Avoid performing bag changes when the bowels are highly active. After removing the bag, if the bowels are highly active, this can result in spillage of stool out of the stoma and on to the surrounding skin. This can result in irritation of skin and over a period of time can lead to severe inflammation and injury. Picking a time for bag [...]

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 [...]

Patient/caregiver was educated on two piece ileostomy as follows: Two piece ileostomy is a device in which the wafer and the ileostomy bag are separate and are two different units. As they are two separate units, two piece ileostomy has the advantage of discarding just the wafer or the bag for a defect or leak or blockage and yet retain the other piece, which can save you supplies that last longer. Also, two piece ileostomy [...]

Patient/caregiver was educated on one piece ileostomy as follows: One piece ileostomy is a device in which the wafer and the ileostomy bag are fused together into one single unit. As they are fused into one unit, a defect in either of them leads to discarding & replacing the whole unit. This can result in early exhaustion of supplies, necessitating a quicker order for supply replacement. One piece ileostomy is comparatively inexpensive than a two [...]