Preventing Home Leakage Accidents While Away

Hello

What precautions do you recommend one should take if there is a leakage accident while one is away from home?

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Pack a travel bag of supplies. Bring it with you. If you like put in a change of clothes too. 

Have a change of supplies available close by. I'm not saying to carry it everywhere you go, but keep supplies accessible. I leave stuff in my truck and in my bag that I carry to work.

What happens if your bag leaks at work in the office? If you go into the bathroom to change the bag don’t you need a mirror? What if someone comes in and sees you changing it?

I don’t use a mirror even though I have a full wall mirror in my bathroom. I would change it in a stall and not out in the open where others could see. 🤷‍♂️ Fortunately, in my 3 1/2 years ish of having an ostomy I’ve never needed to change anywhere but home, and the only leaks I’ve really had were while sleeping cause I believe I’ve rolled over on it. 🤷‍♂️

Living with Your Ostomy | Hollister

Putting a bag on anywhere else but at home or the like where one can take (and remain) in the shower until the stoma has quit spewing and properly clean and dry around it has been quite a challenge.

I've developed a hardier (but more expensive) system of using no sting paste + a little stoma powder mixed in to hyperactivate it, as a thin coating around the stoma then covered with cut moon shaped extra large barrier strip pieces to encircle the stoma and used to press the paste down with. Doubles to cover large areas of the skin.

Then skin protectant dried on top, more paste slightly away from the stoma to marry the wafer with. Then external barrier strips (extra large and full pieces) all around attached to the wafer flange.

What this does is creates a pocket to hold output less it breaks out somehow. Thus little mess gets loose on everything else.

Most won't need something like this but my otosmy output is high and my stoma near flush in a belly fold, a most difficult situation.

Edit:

Haha, speak of the devil, just had a blowout start dripping out after I posted this. Didn't ruin the bed, made it into the bathroom and sure enough, the whole pocket was full of spew. 

But to answer your question unless you have a really tame system, I don't think it's possible to get a good bag on in a gas station bathroom for instance. It's really difficult to keep the stoma clean, dry and oily free, especially if it's active.

There is a contraption online like a tube that one encases their stoma inside it while leaning on it (like against a sink) to keep it in place and collecting spew while one prepares the skin around it and slides a two piece (won't work with a one piece) wafer section over it and up to the skin with a ring or paste on it.

I thought about getting it but I have an oval stoma, not round. 

Heck if round I would have gotten a piece of plastic pipe long ago.

I guess I could heat the plastic tube to be oval. 🤔

But this would only be good for a quick slap method, my efforts are more thorough due to near flush stoma and a belly fold. 

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1) I use two bags - one traveler / one hospital bag with overnight supplies. Both have a change of clothes.

2) Hollister & Coloplast have small foldable mirrors - sort of like old cell phones.

3) Have had to use stalls in major airports - easily workable and private.

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I have a small bag of things in the car and same in my desk at work. I've had two small leaks in eight years at work and just changed it in the crapper, no one needs to know anything.

I have a few bags of the items I use and have them not only in the car, but I have also asked my friends that I visit often if I can leave a bag at their place. Also, a change of clothes. I've never had to use them in 3 years. It's a bag you hope you don't have to use. Regards, IGGIE

Can't they raise the stoma? I have had mine since March; it is below the skin because this was an emergency surgery and they didn't have time to bring in a stoma nurse. So now in December, it will be moved a little and raised above the skin. I can't wait; I'm so tired of it burning and bleeding when the output is heavy. I did finally realize that if I pull that side of the skin up and then place the ring barrier, it has helped a lot.