Hi Bob - I don't know how lenient the UK police would be about stomas and seat belts. They are pretty hot on people not wearing them. I have the added horror of being awfully skinny and the belt dug into my shoulder blade until it was sore. So I sewed towels around the seat belt and positioned it where my shoulder blade is. I have a high output into my ileostomy because I have very little bowel left and my output is just liquid. At the start of a journey, my stoma bag is flat, but after a short while, my bag gets quite big and the pressure of the seat belt made me feel as if it was going to burst any minute - Aaargh - especially if you have passengers. How embarrassing would that be? So I got a plastic rectangular ice cream box and it fitted very well over my bag. Problem solved!
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