I hope you guys can help me out. I have had a urostomy for more than three years now and have no problems with that wafer leaking or urine getting underneath the wafer. I am, however, having nothing but difficulties with the colostomy wafer. First thing to note is my urostomy wafer as a small room on the inside with quite a bit left over to it here to the skin. The colostomy one, on the other hand, has a lot bigger ring in the middle of it. I believe it's 57 mm or 2 1/4 inch.
Have a small indentation at one corner of my stoma and therefore they say I need stoma paste. We've never had to use this on my urostomy, so were not sure exactly how much to apply. The last two days we have had the colostomy wafer leak and it appears like the fecal matter is immediately seeping under the wafer and compromising the integrity of my skin. Not to mention it stinks to high heaven. Any advice on how you guys do it or suggestions would be welcome. As far as my urostomy, we basically use two or three skin preps, but they told us we really didn't need to use them for the colostomy. Last night we decided to go ahead and use skin prep on the colostomy as well as a little bit of stoma paste where the intention is on my stoma. I want to thank you in advance for the help. Normally I'm able to call on a nurse friend of mine who lives down the road to help me out, but she's out of town on vacation right now. Quadius
