hey everyone uh welcome back i'm so excited today i'm gonna be administering my first bag change on
the channel so excited to have you guys see what that looks like that looks like for me what that
entails as you can see right now my bag is sort of lifting up it is wet because i just got out
of the shower so i am about to change it and clean that up for you and show you what that looks like
right now i am getting the flange out i am also going to get myself a barrier ring right now
i am also going to pull out my garbage bag and the new ostomy
bag that i'm going to replace my old one with
so now i will be getting my squares of paper towel and i will get my baby ointment cream for the sink
and i will also need some stoma adhesive powder
we are going to be measuring my stoma once i get the bag off i like to use
this chart to ensure i'm using the right size bag and flange to protect my ostomy
here i have a pair of ostomy scissors i use to cut flanges as well as my paper towel squares
here i have my ostomy support belt i won't be using it this time but i generally do
i now have the clamp closure i'm going to place on the end of my bag just to keep all the stool nice
and in i am going to get my stoma cleaning station together with my paper towel squares i'm going to
set up my garbage now and i am going to pre-open my barrier ring get the packaging off of that
and you'll see that i didn't need the scissors because
my flange is already pre-cut to the 35 mm that i need it to be already
i am so excited now i'm gonna get started i'm gonna get some water on one of my paper
towel squares here i'm just gonna get it uh wet with warm water and i'm going to slowly
start removing the bag so as you can see now i am getting the bag slowly taken off
i slowed the section down just so you guys can see how much care i put into removing the bag
just so i'm careful not to tear my own skin i am also not worried about bert um
taking a [ __ ] on me everywhere just because i'm kind of more equipped
at handling him and i know what times he poos and i'm careful not to eat before i change him
as you can see here i'm getting ready to clean around bert i'm just getting some water and
a lather of a mild unscented soap i like to use to clean the area on bag change days
whether that be every four or five days it doesn't matter i am always using this process just to keep
a the skin around my stoma as clean and healthy as possible i do find uh sometimes it does get
dry and itchy and irritated but uh with this cleaning every five days it does really really
help uh prevent that most of that and i do have skin barrier wipes i personally do not like to
use these wipes because i do find that they burn my skin and i don't really like that it feels very
uncomfortable for me and for bert so i just used my method of the soap and water
once again i am going to be repeating the process just ensuring that i am securing bert in a warm
paper towel just in case he does decide to poop i am also just going to create another lather
with an unscented soap just to ensure i am removing as much adhesive as possible um adhesive
remover wipes are also a great alternative to this i have just run out of them so i find
that using this method and my fingers to just peel off the excess adhesive has been working
it has also gotten me to itch a bit of the skin that has been under there and dying to be etched
i'm going to be showing you the stoma adhesive powder and zinc oxide i used just
to help with the skin irritation right now i'm going to show you
how to measure your stoma i'm just looking to ensure that i do have the correct size
which is 35 mm i am going to see it here and it looks about right there's enough room around
it i'm also going to show you how gross it still is even though we cleaned it so many times
here i am going over it again with the soap in the water just to clean it
trying to get all the adhesive off i cannot believe it's still stuck on there
but yeah uh just try to get it as clean as possible
hooray it is time to get my new bag on i was just testing out the flange to make sure it still fits
i'm going to be attaching my skin barrier it's easy to manipulate and i'm going to manipulate it
on the back of the flange here just to make sure it is wide enough as the opening
so that it doesn't pinch my stoma when i place it on everything looks good to go here it looks like
it is forming to my skin and fitting securely on um it doesn't look like i will need to apply heat
just to um absorb the adhesive um because it's sticking by itself and i am placing the bag over
bert and i am so excited because for once and two bag changes it's sticking i hope to bring
you guys more ostomy content and more ways of how i care for birds soon thanks so much for watching