Does anyone know of a way I could thicken my watery, normal diarrhea-type ileostomy output in my bag without using the beads which people have recommended?
I was wondering if I could use gelatin? I have attempted googling this, but I got no results.
Surely people had a method of doing so in the past before these beads, which gel up your output, were invented? Especially since I cannot eat anything which could thicken my output - as the risk of bowel obstruction is too great, and eating solid food gives me incredible pain...

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