But many sufferers need to have a part of their intestine removed, which means being fitted with a colostomy bag to receive the waste products from the body - or are given a temporary colostomy ...

Instead it passes out through the stoma. You wear a bag stuck onto the skin over the stoma to collect your poo. You might have a temporary colostomy with surgery to remove part of the colon. This is ...

Your health care team will show you how to change your bag and take ... doctors do a colostomy to give a damaged section of bowel time to heal. In this case, the stoma is temporary.

For an ileostomy, the small intestine forms the stoma, and for a colostomy, the large intestine does. Stool is collected in a bag worn over the stoma. The stoma may be temporary and reversed ...