Ostomy belts are little devices you wear around the abdomen,
which protects and supports the weight of your ostomy appliance. This is an
alternative way to keep the appliance in place during activity which is
vigorous. There are elastic belts
that’ll hook into small loops of your flange or pouch. They’re helpful in
holding the flange to the body, which preserves the seal and helps prevent the
leakage too.
You should begin walking a bit with surgery, since it helps
stimulate the bowel function, and it’ll get you back on track to getting the
muscle that you lost back from before you went into the hospital. Ostomates who
regain this usually can do a lot of things, and ostomy belts are great since
they allow you to do all of these. They tape the appliance to edges too.
However, if you do sweat a bit, you might need to change it, especially if you
notice that the appliance is slipping.
Ostomy belts play a part in supporting pouch systems,
especially in the case of hernias.
They’re elastic, and only an ich in width, and they come in many
different sizes and lengths, with the longest being 154 inches, and can be
adjusted. At the end is elastic, and
there are some hooks which attach to the tabs on the belt of the pouch or barrier,
depending on the ostomy system. This is
used to help with minimizing the risk of holding onto elimination in the skin
areas where the pouches attach, and of course it helps support the weight of
the pouch as there are oily drainages, and also will avoid irritation, hernias,
and of course skin mounding around the tissues around the stoma, and of course
to protect the stoma from irritation and the trauma that comes from external
contact. These are confused with
binders, which are larger. There might be multiple bands which are available for
better concealment, and of course the prevention of hernias.
So what’s so great about ostomy belts? Well, they will
support, stabilize, and conceal the ostomy pouch. This also supports the weight of the pouch
that’s attached to the skin that surrounds the stoma. It also reduces noise from the pouch, and it
makes it capable of holding the pouch in a more discreet and secured manner
close to where the abdomen is. It also
helps reduce the tendency of mounding, reduces herniation of those areas,
provides better support of the skin and tissues, helps with adhesion of the
pouch to the stoma, helps to reduce the discharge of the contents of the pouch,
reduces irritation, and eliminates the pendulum effect that might not otherwise
be created in different ways. This also
enhances the flanges convexity, so when you use the belt, you can pull it
towards the abdomen, which enhances the effects. This also supports and secures
the weight of the stools towards the pouch, making it safer and much comfier
for you.
Those who are active and move around from side to side do
worry that their ostomy system might have a reduced grip, so this will help
with improving that security. It’s hard to find tabs on the one piece systems,
since there’s no rigidity in the coupling mechanism that comes from the two
piece system.
An ostomy belt helps many people keep their ostomy systems
in place, and you can get a lot of different variants which can help you. This
is a wonderful option for people who are looking to do more but would like the
extra security and comfort they desire when they go out and do things.
