A Crohn's patient has raised awareness of the realities of living with the disease - including using a colostomy bag - by writing on Facebook about how people are insensitive towards those with the ...

A Crohn's patient has raised awareness of the realities of living with the condition - including using a colostomy bag - by writing on Facebook about how people are insensitive towards those with the ...

A young mother’s heartfelt description about the challenges of using public disabled toilets with a colostomy bag has been shared almost 13,000 times on social media. Caroline Richards, 36, from ...

FRIENDS star Matthew Perry says he was forced to use a colostomy bag for nine months after his drug habit burst his colon. The actor, 53, says a crippling addiction to opiate OxyContin left him on a ...

A bowel cancer survivor who felt embarrassed by her colostomy bag has used hundreds of the pouches to make a wedding dress, in a bid to end the taboos surrounding them. Angela Elders, 56, from ...

There has been quite a lot in the media lately about ostomies – that is people with colostomy or ileostomy bags. With photographs of people flashing their stomas going viral and the #GetYourBellyOut ...

A comedian has started showing his colostomy bag at his gigs to encourage more discussion about the topic. Louie Green, 35, had emergency bowel surgery for a diverticular disease. Green, from ...

Annie Jenkins, 30, has been using a colostomy bag for three years and says she has 'an amazing quality of life' now A WOMAN is determined to prove colostomy bags don’t smell after a ten-year-old boy ...

When Bethany Townsend posted her holiday photos online, she could never have imagined they’d be seen by nine million people, receive 200,000 ‘likes’ and more than 17,000 shares on Facebook (and ...

A British mountaineer who has a colostomy bag is set to lead a "major" Himalayan expedition next month. Mick Fowler, 62, from Derbyshire, will attempt to scale a 6,000m (19,685ft) peak in the mountain ...