Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A stoma is an opening from an area inside your body to the outside, according to the U.S. National Library of Medicine. (Photo: ...

Over the years, [there have been some] really difficult situations to deal with – I was hospitalised last year while I was making my album, and lying in hospital, not knowing if I was going to be well ...

A teenager will have a stoma bag for the rest of her life after what she thought was period pain turned out to be ulcerative colitis (UC). Sophia Haden, 18, said she had to go to the toilet 20 times a ...

Lydia O’Connell has experienced the worst of what Crohn’s and other illnesses have thrown at her, but she’s now learning to ...

Mesha Moinirad, known as Mr Colitis Crohn's on social media, demonstrated a live stoma bag change on the ITV show ...

Earlier this month, a man who did not want to live with a stoma died after a judge ruled life-support treatment could end. His story caused an outpouring of shock amongst the stoma community and ...

Georgie Leckey, 26, feared ulcerative colitis would end her hobbies of dance and exercise.

Mesha Moinirad stripped off his shirt and showed the ITV show's hosts Cat Deeley and Ben Shephard how he changed his stoma ...

Influencer Mesha Moinirad is on a mission to support those living with the chronic illness by posting about his live living ...

A stoma hernia, or parastomal hernia, may develop following an ileostomy. This happens when part of the intestine protrudes through a weakness in the abdominal wall around the stoma. Surgery can help ...

A 39-year-old colorectal cancer survivor talks about her experience living with a permanent stoma A stoma is a surgically created opening on the abdomen's surface to divert the flow of faeces, which ...

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