FAQs
What types of skin and stoma problems can occur?
As the skin is healing from surgery, the site can have a little bit of redness or irritation. This is normal and will improve as the site heals.
You should contact your healthcare team if you have:
- Pain while feeding
- Bleeding around stoma
- Blood mixed with stomach content
- Redness that will not go away or if larger than 2.5cm in diameter
- Soreness that will not go away
- Large amount of drainage that does not go away or is causing red skin
- Granulation tissue*
- An odor at stoma
- Pus around or draining from stoma
- Fever
*Note: Granulation tissue is extra tissue that can grow as the surgical incision heals the body. The tissue can get big or cause a lot of drainage. It may need treatment. If it bleeds or a large amount of tissue builds up, contact your healthcare team.
