Stoma Tips

Loving life as a stoma care nurse with an ileostomy

Silvia Karina Moreira Seifert charts a life that has taken her from Crohn’s disease to an ostomy and a nursing career in Brazil and Chile

Staying strong

Luciana Podschun introduces the autumn 2021 issue of StomaTips

Caring for ourselves

Luciana Podschun introduces the 7th issue of StomaTips

Surgery school: operation preparation

Specialist nurse Catherine Jones shares her experience of running a Surgery School for people undergoing an operation to form a stoma

Bowel cancer: how we catch it, how we cure it

Janaína Maria Felix explains how nurses and doctors are able to detect and treat colorectal cancers

Maintaining healthy peristomal skin

Sue Pridham explains how to avoid, spot and resolve any problems affecting the skin around your stoma

Bold, beautiful and making moves

Jearlean Taylor draws on her career as a model and motivational speaker to help women radiate confidence and make a difference

A little inspiration: Jessica’s stoma journey

Kimberly Lucock recounts how her daughter Jessica has stayed smiling through chronic bowel problems and getting a stoma

Something to cheer about: positively Stella

Sarah Smith tells how her wife supported her through severe ulcerative colitis and how she was liberated by her ileostomy

My Precious: embracing the beauty of my fistula

Eilidh Mackay shares her unique life story of how she has survived two cancers and gained a fistula bag in the process, making her feel more beautiful than ever

Fearless: how we started No Guts All Glory

Dusty and Andrea Sibley tell how they were inspired to establish a charity to help other people going through bowel surgery

Grin and bear it: finding confidence and purpose with an ileostomy

Kelly Moss tells how her ileostomy helped her reclaim a normal life, and how, after a difficult diagnosis, she renewed her sense of purpose, one bear at a time