Now, this video isn't intended to be a how-to video, I just want to try and explain what
these products are typically used for.
Pouch liners are a really interesting product, and what they allow you to do is have a disposable
liner that you'd put inside your pouch to collect your stool.
For the most part, this is a great product for colostomates who might have infrequent,
dry and easier to manage stool.
But these usually aren't used for ileostomates, and certainly not for urostomates.
The way you'd use a pouch liner is you would take the product and insert into your pouch,
leaving enough to just come over your flange or your coupling; that's were you would connect
your wafer.
Now, the idea is that instead of emptying your pouch like you'd normally would, or throwing
out the whole pouch if you've got a closed-ended pouch, you would basically take your pouch
off, remove the liner (which has the contents in it), and then you'd flush that in a toilet.
Many of these are supposedly biodegradable, but I'm not so sure about that.
So if you have a sewerage system that tends to clog, you may not want to use these products,
or at least check with your manufacturer to make sure that they are truly biodegradable.
But the idea is that you want to replace this every time you empty your pouch.
Now, I've used this product before, and it's come in handy in quite a few situations where
bathroom access was less than ideal. Portapotties, for examples, would be a really good option
to use these liners.
For the most part, I don't use these because I empty my pouch often through the day because
I have an ileostomy, and it doesn't become economically feasible to go through so many
of those, so I don't find that I need to use them.
If you are a colostomate who has infrequent output, this might actually help to save you
quite a bit of money over pouches, which tend to cost quite a bit more, because you can
use your pouch over and over again because it stays clean and you don't have to change
it for any other reason other than wear and tear.
So pouch liners can help to save you money in that regard.
One of the biggest challenges that I've had with pouch liners is that sometimes they can
be messy, and what I mean by that is that as you take off your wafer, you may have stool
coming out of your bag (depending on how full your pouch is), and if you don't have an extra
pouch on you and your pouch bursts or leaks, then you're going to have a really hard time
putting another pouch liner in there because it's just going to get all nasty on the outside
of that.
So if that were to happen, then I stop using the pouch liner, and I go straight to using
the drainable pouches.
Unfortunately, if you're using a closed-ended pouch, that may not be an option for you and
it's best to keep another pouch with you, just in case you have to throw out a soiled one.
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