How To Care For Irritated Skin Around Stoma. Avoid using ostomy powder or skin prep wipes for more than a couple of days at a time. The right formulation of ingredients in your skin barrier helps maintain healthy skin from the start.
This will allow any trapped drainage to collect into the pouch. If youve been living with irritating skin around your stoma thinking you have to put up with itthink again. When it comes to cleaning the peristomal skin it is best to keep things simple.
For protecting the skin you can use barrier wipes and stoma powder to form a protective crust on the skin.
Apply Stomahesive powder and gently rub in. 362019 For your skin my stoma nurse recommended using nasal spray to reduce the redness I believe it has a mild steroid in it. Silk wound dressing helps eliminate scar tissue formation. As soon as irritation begins clean the skin around the stoma with water alone using a cotton wipe.