Stoma Rash

Stoma rash

        There is one thing that every stoma patient will suffer of at some point in his or her life, something that cannot be avoided, no matter the precautions: a stoma rash. See, right after the surgical procedure of creating a stoma and installing the stoma equipment, a stoma rash appears. One might wonder why it appears, if nothing wrong has happened and the surgeon has done his or her job perfectly. Well, the answer is pretty obvious: the trauma that the skin suffers is far greater then whatever it can absorb and stay intact.

        Basically, the stoma rash is a sort of natural reaction to a severe trauma.

        If nothing goes truly wrong, the rash will disappear in about two to three weeks from the surgery. If it does not disappear, then there might be a problem. These kinds of problems range from the harmless (too tight clothing or the wrong type of material for clothing) to the strange (an allergy to the stoma material) and, finally, the very dangerous (a bacterium entering the body through the opening in the abdomen of the patient).

        Only a specialist can recommend an appropriate course of treatment, since only a physician can tell the difference between those three types of stoma rash. Do not fret, all of them are treatable. This means that the patient must schedule a visit with his or her attending physician as soon as possible and not delay it under any circumstances.