All about Ostomy Belts

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.