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Ostomyland Editorial #3 Now Available
How the Digestive System Usually Works (Stoma Care for Health Care Assistants)
Editorial #3: Building an Ostomy Reference Library from Freebie Company Leaflets has just been published on Ostomyland. It is the third in our new Editorials feature. This time around its discussing the wealth of information found in company patient-support booklets, and specifically we’re looking at the SecuriCare booklets which are by far-and-away my favourite of all the companies various ranges of free literature. SecuriCare are a UK home delivery service which forms part of the CliniMed group of comapanies, along with Welland Medical.
The SecuriCare booklets go far beyond being just product advertising for their pouches and skin care accessories like most company leaflets do. Instead, their literature offers you a comprehensive library of information about your ostomy and caring for it. Regardless of if you are awaiting surgery, or been an ostomate for many years, there is still information contained in these which make them worthwhile keeping.
The company also offer a range of booklets for carers and health-care workers too, and whilst the information contained within is aimed more for the medical professional than the patient they are still worthwhile having on your bookcase or in your desk drawer as they also include indicators of what possible problems can arise with a stoma, along with symptoms and advice. This, to me, makes them an invaluable set of booklets for all self-caring ostomates and not just for those who receive external help with managing their stoma.
Hard copies of all the leaflets are available for free to our UK readers, and for our international readers SecuriCare have kindly allowed us to host PDF files for many of their booklets which are available for free and immediate download, and you don’t even have to give them your contact details! If the booklet you are interested in is not available on the page in PDF format, please keep checking back as we hope to get some more available in the near future.
You can find Editorial #3 here, and the full link is available below. You can read more on both SecuriCare and CliniMed on their respective pages on Ostomyland (also linked below) and our international readers can get details of which CliniMed products are available in their own country by visiting the Welland Medical website.
Useful Ostomyland Links:
Editorial #3: Building an Ostomy Reference Library…..
http://ostomyland.com/mainsite/editorial-3-build-an-ostomy-reference-library-from-freebie-company-booklets/
SecuriCare’s “Suppliers” page on Ostomyland:
http://ostomyland.com/mainsite/securicare-home-delivery-service/
CliniMed’s “Manufacturer” page on Ostomyland:
http://ostomyland.com/mainsite/manufacturers-clinimed-uk/
External Links:
SecuriCare Website: http://www.securicaremedical.co.uk
CliniMed Website: http://www.clinimed.co.uk
Welland Medical Website: http://www.wellandmedical.com
I would like to thank SecuriCare Brand & PR Manager, Amanda Castle, for allowing us to host these download files for our International readers – not all companies would have allowed this – and also for her invaluable help and patience during the writing of this editorial.
This content has been Digiproved © 2012 Ostomyland
Combating Leakage: Some Products You May Not Be Aware Of
I’m pleased to announce that the Ostomyland Editorial #2 is now available – it is also being added to our Lifestyle Guide as it is a look at the current product ranges available to the ostomate to help combat leakage from a variety causes. It also helps you determine the cause of leakage, and offers advice on what you can do to help ease the problems caused by leaks themselves.
For the full article, please visit chapter 17b from the lifestlye guide menu, or visit this link.
We’d love to read your comments on the article, so please feel free to leave your thoughts on what we’ve written about combating leakage via the comments form, or Facebook comments box at the bottom of the Combat Leakage page. Dont foget to “like” the page if you, um, like it. 
I’d also like to take this opportunity to wish you all a very happy new year, and a happy and prosperous 2012.
Useful Links:
Ostomyland Editoral #2: Combat Leakage – Some Products You May Not Be Aware Of
http://ostomyland.com/mainsite/combating-leakage-some-products-you-may-not-be-aware-of/
Ostomyland Lifestyle Guide: Chapter 17 – Leakage / Skin Problems
http://ostomyland.com/mainsite/chapter-17-leakage-and-other-skin-problems/
This content has been Digiproved © 2012 Ostomyland
Oland Editorial #1: Trio Silesse & Niltac
These days, whenever an ostomy-product manufacturer mails you, or your national support charity sends you their latest newsletter, you can expect a small mountain of samples to drop out of the envelope.
As a colostomate, and as someone involved with the online ostomy support world, I have received my fair share of samples. And to be honest, most of them go straight in the bin as I’m either not looking for the particular service that that product claims to offer, or I just doubt it works as well as it claims.
It’s a little known fact that I have to shave the area around my stoma because I’m a hairy bear, and without doing that the flange never sticks securely. I’ve always had sensitive skin, my face never really got used to be being shaved so I often have neck rashes, and the skin under the flange has fared no better with it having had a shaving rash the majority of the fourteen years I’ve had my stoma.
Over the years I’ve tried countless second skin wipes and they never really worked as well as they claimed, in face the alcohol based ones used to make it worse, and over time it became instinctive to dismiss the skin wipe product samples and to tar them all with the brush of disappointment.
So it was with these thoughts in the back of my mind that I tried the Niltac and Silesse product samples, manufactured by The Trio Group. And not only was I pleasantly surprised enough to write this editorial review, but I discovered that the combining the products helped me achieve some very surprising bonuses too – namely, far better pouch security and adhesion times. Continue reading
