Colostomy Diet Tips: Managing Liquid Output

Hi all...first I want to mention what a great site this is!!  I'm just new and poking around, but everybody is so supportive and lovely...I wish I found you all earlier

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I have a brand new colostomy and some questions with respect to diet.  I had an ileostomy previously, but this is very different!  I'm about 8 weeks in now, and the output is liquid almost all of the time (my colostomy is behaving like an ileostomy, actually!!!).  I've added fiber, restricted fluids, taken immodium...any other suggestions?

  

Thanks!

Sorry I can't give you an answer, but welcome to the site.

I am sure somebody more knowledgeable than I am can help.

I pretty much eat anything, but I have had my colostomy since October 2008.

Good luck!!

Pat  

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HI



Bananas and anything with gelatin. Jelly, custard, marshmallow, peanut butter, cheese, bread, apple sauce, rice, pasta, potatoes and yoghurt.



These help thicken output. Just remember though, everything in moderation.



Hope it helps.



JAx

I have had mine for 20 years and its liquid I find when it does thickin up from something I have eatin I just end up with cramps.I do use codiene to thicken it when I work I buy the acetaminophen over the counter mixture,for you  only 8 weeks give it a bit more time and see what happens I still some visit the bathroom way more then I like but then again I eat everything LOL  Good LUck

Hi Sadie,



     I too have a colostomy since August of 2009.  In the past I also had a temporary iliostomy.  My colostomy works pretty much the same way as the previous stoma:  liquid 24/7, runs pretty much all the time, needs to be emptied every 2 hours or so.  The only difference has been not having the gas that would puff out the iliostomy bag.  I find that whatever i eat there is no difference.  However my problems were all caused by radiation and not a disease process.  I do eat whatever I want since I have found no difference.  In the early days of the colostomy I was more careful though.



     Good luck.



     cee

Living with Your Ostomy | Hollister

This will be of no help but I thought I'd throw it in here. Since I've had my ileostomy there are certain foods I can't eat and they're the same ones I wouldn't eat before, now I use it as an excuse not to eat them, hee hee, the only thing my ileo has helped me with.

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ED

Hi, I have a colostomy, and for a year I had constant liquidy and really frequent output, the only thing that has helped me is medication for the Crohn's I have, as I was also vomitting several times a day, with chronic tummy cramps, I've been on the meds around 9 months, and now the vomitting has reduced to two/three times a week, nauseus most days, and mainly my output is thicker, just sometimes out the blue it turns back to water, anything with fibre leaves me in terrible pain, I've tried bananas, jelly, peanut butter, I can't eat dairy so custard is out, and all that happens is that I get cramps, I guess it's just trial and error, as everyone's tummy copes with different things, but it's still early days for you so don't lose heart, try and keep positive, and hopefully it'll settle down soon

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I think I see a pattern here and it sounds similiar to my experience.  I have Crohn's and had a permanent colostomy in Dec 09.  I eat anything and everything!  Never could do fiber before but it is no different than anything else I eat now.  Some days thick output and others, like water.  There really seems no rhyme or reason.  So my philosophy is that after having no salalds, fresh fruit, popcorn or chili for 25 years, I'm going to enjoy eating and deal with it!  (Even though I have lost my excuse not to eat stuff I really don't like.)

I`ve only had mine for four weeks, but hi protien and fruit like peeled apples and bananas seem to be working for me, coupled with at about 1.5 litres of fluid a day. But i`m still trying  foods and looking for sugestions just for a bit of variety.

All I can add here is 'DITTO', especially broad beans!