What is Ostomy Surgery?

A person can encounter several diseases in life. Many infections and disorders lead to operations or surgeries. Thus, when a patient has some defects and problems in the digestive system, he/she needs the ostomy surgery. To treat and heal the disease in the digestive tract, doctors have to perform an ostomy and fabricate a stoma in the abdomen of the patient.

The problem, disease, or infection in the large intestine (colon and rectum) needs surgery, called a colostomy. The diseases in the small intestine (ileum) need an operation, called an ileostomy, and the treatment and surgery of bladder need urostomy.

The procedure for every ostomy is almost the same. Doctors construct a circular hole in the abdomen of the patient. The patients need the opening/hole or stoma to pass out the waste of the body. The ostomy surgery changes the organic passages of the excreting feces and urine.

In every ostomy, doctors treat a different canal and part of the digestive system. Due to cancer, infection, blockage, birth defect, and injury in the colon, rectum, or large intestine, they perform a colostomy. In this procedure, they take off or delete the infected or diseased part of the large intestine. And, conduct the remaining uninfected section of the colon to the stoma. The anus will not work after the performance of the colostomy surgery. A stoma in the case of colostomy ejects the solid stool.

In the case of ileostomy, doctors change the path of the ileum or small intestine. They do not let the ileum touch to the colon. A surgeon’s purpose is to disconnect the small intestine and large intestine. The stool will come out from the stoma through the ileum without going or passing to the colon. In the case of ileum cancer, inflammatory bowel disease, colitis, chronic infection in the small intestine, or blockage in the ileum, doctors cut out the infected part of the small intestine. The stoma of the ileostomy ejects a semi-solid feces or loose motion. So, these patients do wear a drainable pouching system. As the bowel movement will get out of control and unpredictable.

In the case of Urostomy, a surgeon cut out the infected part of the bladder or tubes of the urinary tract. It will not impact the anal tract and solid waste (stool or feces). The objective is to give the urine discharge a new pathway. Due to the bladder cancer, blockage in the urinary tubes, injury in the bladder, or any other severe infection in the bladder, kidneys, or urinary tract escort the urostomy. The doctors design a stoma on the right side of the abdomen. It will only pass the urine to the ostomy bag.

What is Stoma?

Well, the stoma is an artificial and doctors’ fabricated organ of the body. It lies in the abdomen of the patient. In the case of colostomy, it appears on the lower left side of the navel. Depending on the type of the colostomy, it may arise in the middle of the abdomen, below the belly button. For ileostomy and urostomy, the surgeon creates a self-made hole in the lower right side of the navel. The aim of the stoma in each case, either colostomy, ileostomy, and urostomy is the same. It only collects the waste of the body, whether solid or liquid. It serves the purpose of the anus in the human body.

How an Ostomy Surgery Improves Your Life?

Living with pain, infection, and disease is like a life in hell. Therefore, every patient wants to get rid of a diseased life. Thus, Ostomy improves the quality of a patient’s life. It changes the path of excretion and creates a new part of the abdomen, but it eliminates the infected tracts of the digestive system. After this surgery and the passing of the few weeks, an ostomate can live a better life. No disease, no pain, no infection, and a better life. You can follow your profession and previous activities without any fear.