Urostomy and colostomy bags are used in two different types of ostomies. Also called stomas, these are surgical openings meant to create alternatives for waste to leave your body. A urostomy bag is ...

A urostomy bag and a catheter are two different devices that can help drain and collect urine from your body. A urostomy is often permanent, whereas a catheter is not. If you have certain medical ...

Frequent emptying and changing of a pouch can help people take care of their urostomy. It is important to empty and clean the pouch regularly to stop bacteria growth. People will need to empty the ...

A urostomy is an opening in the abdominal wall that a surgeon creates during surgery. It allows urine to bypass an injured or impaired bladder and exit the body. A person may require a urostomy as a ...

Procedures to either replace the bladder or help the bladder hold urine are called urinary diversions. Urinary diversion can be as simple as using a small part of the bowel as a tube for the urine to ...

When Jodi Byfuglin, 56, was diagnosed with bladder cancer, it felt like cruel irony. Byfuglin had lost both her parents to cancer in their 50s, and as a single mother of two, she was all her kids had ...

If you have a urostomy formed, you pass urine through an opening (stoma) in your tummy (abdomen). You wear a bag at all times to catch the urine as it leaves your body. You might have a urostomy after ...

After surgery to remove your bladder, you need another way to collect and pass your urine. Doctors call this urinary diversion. There are different types of urinary diversion. How you pass urine ...

So many people live with an invisible disability – something which massively affects them, but you probably wouldn’t know about unless you were told. The artist Tracey Emin has publicly spoken out ...

If you’ve had your bladder removed, you’ll need to get used to a new way to pass urine from your body. The operation you had, called a cystectomy, is a lifelong change. You may have to bathe ...