A person who has had an ileostomy and wants to lose weight could consider eating low fat products, such as low fat dairy and lean proteins, and steamed or boiled fruits and vegetables, which should be peeled and deseeded. With a doctor's approval, a person can also exercise after having an ileostomy.
Many people who have a stoma find maintaining a healthy weight difficult. You may have a restrictive diet and find it challenging to add mass or you could be one of the many people who find it hard to get into exercise and would like to lose weight.
Gaining excessive weight after stoma surgery is quite a common complaint amongst the ostomy community, and it can be quite distressing to feel like you have lost control of another aspect of your life.
Drink 8 to 10 (8-ounce) glasses (about 2 liters) of liquids throughout the day. Drink sports drinks (such as Gatorade or Powerade) and oral rehydration solutions (such as Pedialyte®), if you can. These drinks will help keep you from becoming dehydrated.
Take time to eat slowly and chew your food well. Smaller meals with frequent snacks and nourishing drinks between meals. Regular intake of food and fluids to help achieve optimal colostomy function. Minimise high intakes of caffeine from tea, coffee, and fizzy drinks, and alcohol.
It is important to note that you cannot use your wife's anus or stoma for sexual activity. If there is an unexpected leak of the pouch during intercourse, bathing or showering together may lesson the embarrassment, and allow you to both continue with your sexual play.
After surgery it is normal for all ostomates to feel fatigued. Don't forget you have just had major abdominal surgery.
Not everybody loses weight when they have a stoma
Although unwanted weight loss is a common problem before and immediately following surgery, long-term many people find that they gain too much weight and decide to cut down.
Body contact during sex will usually not hurt the stoma.
For people with abdominal ostomies, the type of intimate clothing that is worn may need to change. For example, women may consider wearing open panties, “teddies,” intimacy wraps, or a short slip or nightie.
Try sizing up for a looser fit or if you like wearing jeans give jeggings a go as these will have an elasticated waist band and leggings are looser and more comfortable. Make sure to have a waistband sitting just above the stoma, applying pressure to the top of the pouch.
Well, elimination of waste is a major body function and your elimination of waste has changed; in fact you need to wear a prosthetic device (ostomy appliance) to manage this change. You have a record of an impairment of a major body function, therefore you are protected by the provisions of the ADA.
You must still include fibre in your diet. Choose some foods from the following list daily: Wholemeal bread. High fibre cereal e.g. Weetabix, porridge.
After a stoma, the bottom part of the bowel no longer has poo passing through it, but it still produces mucus. Dead cells from the lower bowel or rectum may be mixed in with the mucus.
It's always a good idea to empty or change your stoma bag before you go to bed as it will help to prevent your bag from filling up too much overnight and disturbing your sleep. A full stoma bag is always at risk of leaking and that's not something you want to experience during the night.
If you normally eat later in the evening or soon before you go to bed, this could be increasing your night time output. If this sounds like you, then varying your meal times could help to reduce stoma bag leakages during the night as your stoma is less active.
Jearlean Taylor, a 51-year-old Baltimore model, said she has been embarrassed about her colostomy and urstomy bags since she was a child.
Yes you can! Stoma Bags are waterproof, and you do not need a special stoma bag to go swimming, but if the bag has a filter just pop a filter cover on before entering the water. Here are our top tips for ostomates about returning to the pool.
You need to empty a drainable pouch when it gets to be about one-third full. Don't let it get more than half full. This keeps the pouch from bulging under your clothes.
like rice krispies and cornflakes, ready brek, potatoes (no skins), green bananas, sweet potato, yam, dishes made with maize, millet or cornmeal and white pasta or rice for energy. These foods may also thicken your stoma output. Make these types of foods the main part of all your meals.
When introducing chocolate try small amounts to begin with to see how you tolerate it and go from there. In the early days of managing your stoma, you will be getting used to the new sounds, smells and the amount of output from your stoma.