Opus Healthcare

We’re delighted to announce that another company has agreed to have an entry in our manufacturers listings. Opus Healthcare is a UK based who produce ostomy accessories, many of which are highly regarded in the market.

Opus Healthcare’s products include the fantastic pancaking-busting product Clear Way Stoma Bridge, which we recently featured in our Combating Leakage: Some Products You May Not Be Aware Of editorial.

We’d like to thank Opus Healthcare for allowing us to feature them on Ostomyland, and we hope that their inclusion will bring their products attention to UK ostomates and in turn that it helps them more effectively manage any stoma management issues they have.

Useful Links: 
The Opus Healthcare page on Ostomyland:
http://ostomyland.com/mainsite/manufacturers-opus-healthcare/
The Opus Healthcare website (External Site):
http://www.opus-healthcare.co.uk

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C&S Ostomy Pouch Covers

C&S Ostomy Pouch Covers have very kindly given us some new and updated content for their manufacturer’s page on Ostomyland. The content shows the various new ranges they have available for purchase, including daily wear covers, quick dry covers as well as some new covers with fun quotes on them.

We all know that for some people, having an ostomy can be a difficult experience both physically and emotionally, and I often say that the most important step of living with an ostomy is acceptance. You dont have to love the stoma, but once you’ve accepted the fact you have a stoma you can start to move on, and continue with your life.

And, one things is for sure, whatever the cover’s pattern – be it just a plain cover, tartan cover, spotty cover, or even one with the slogan Shit Happens or Does This Cover Make My Stoma Look Big? on it – an ostomy pouch cover can help with your self confidence [with clothes or without ] and keep you drier in hot summer days when your pouch may normally cause your skin to sweat where it rubs against it.

C&S Ostomy Pouch Covers now despatch internationally too, so why not take a peak at their newly updated Oland page, and see if any covers tickle your fancy.

Useful Links:
The C&S Ostomy Pouch Covers page on Ostomyland:
http://ostomyland.com/mainsite/manufacturers_cs_ostomy_pouch_covers/
The C&S Ostomy Pouch Covers website & store:
http://www.cspouchcovers.com/

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To launch the section we have two services listed, one in the USA – Edgepark Medical Supplies – and one in the UK – Securicare (Part of Salts). You can find their page links in our new Suppliers (Home Delivery) sidebar menu category, or by clicking the links at the bottom of this post. Both companies have been very helpful and patient in the creation of this new section, so our thanks goes to them.

The listings are a free service for all companies, and the page content is usually written and supplied by the company themselves as they know how best to advertise their services.

We hope you find this new addition to the site useful, especially as it starts to grow over the coming weeks and months. More listings are coming very soon!

Have a great weekend everybody!

Useful Links:
The Edgepark Medical Services page on Ostomyland: http://ostomyland.com/mainsite/suppliers-edgepark-medical-supplies/
The Securicare page on Ostomyland: http://ostomyland.com/mainsite/securicare-home-delivery-service/

External Links:
Edgepark Medical Services Website: http://www.edgepark.com
Securicare Website: http://www.securicaremedical.co.uk/

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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/

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The first article is by O’land community member Andypig who has written about his experiences with FAP - Familial Adenomatous Polyposis. You can find Andy’s article under the sidebar menu’s Member Written Article heading, or directly via this link.

If you think you have an article which would be useful on the Ostomyland website then please do get in touch with us. You need to be a member of our community forums to be considered for the section, so feel free to register for a free account if you havent already done so.

We hope you enjoy reading Andy’s story, and we look forward to hopefully featuring your submission on the site soon!

Useful Links:
FAP – An Owners Guide - http://ostomyland.com/mainsite/fap-familiar-adenomatous-polyposis/

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The company is renowned in the ostomy and urology marketplaces for its superior products, knowledge and clinical expertise, and we’re delighted to announce that they now have their own page on Ostomyland where you can find more about them and their ostomy product ranges. There is also a samples request service in place for anyone whom wishes to try out some of their products. On a personal note, I’m going to give the Varimate Wedges a try!

You can find the Peak Medical entry in the manufacturer’s listings via our sidebar menu to the left. They are located under Manufacturer: Pouches etc. Or click on the link below.

Please note: Peak Medical currently only distributes their products to the UK market, and as such sample requests are limited to UK residents.

Useful Links:
Ostomyland’s Peak Medical Page: http://ostomyland.com/mainsite/manufacturers-peak-medical-ltd/
Peak Medical’s Website: http://www.peakmedical.co.uk/

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The Bowel Movement has been added to the Ostomyland lifestyle guide’s Ostomy Links page (Chapter 22). We’d like to congratulate Liz on her success to date in such a short period of time, and hope the link’s inclusion as well as this post will help bring them a few more visitors to their website, mailing list, and book readership.

External Links:
The Bowel Movement: http://www.thebowelmovement.co.uk

NB: Ostomyland is not responsible for any content outside of ostomyland.com

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Trio Healthcare specialises in skin care and odour control products such as their Niltac medical adhesive removal spray; the Silesse sting-free skin barrier and the flagship Trio Diamonds odour control gelling sachets.

Trio Healthcare’s products are available in 20 different countries including the UK and EU and USA. They are also available via UK prescription and via Government or Insurance in the EU. In the USA they are available via the Trio Shop. For details of product availability in your Country you can email Trio Healthcare, and likewise if you would like some samples, they would love to hear from you at the same address.

For more details on these products why not check out the new Trio Healthcare page on the Ostomyland website? You’ll find it under “Manufacturers: Accessory” heading on the site’s sidebar menu, or by clicking any of the relevent links in this post. Alternatively you can visit the Trio Healthcare Group website or their individual product websites.

Ostomyland would like to take this opportunity to thank Trio Healthcare for it’s interest in our community, and hope that together we can help Ostomates discover these exciting new products.

Useful Links:
Ostomyland’s Trio Healthcare Page

External Links:
Trio Healthcare Group Website – http://www.triohealthcaregroup.com
Niltac Medical Adhesive Removal Spray – http://www.niltac.com
Silesse Sting-Free Skin Barrier – http://www.silesse.com
Trio Diamonds Odour Control Gelling Sachets – http://www.triodiamonds.com

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The new look website.

We’ve had a bit of a spring clean here at Ostomyland. The Oland main site is often peoples first contact with our site and it’s community as it houses the majority of our article-based ostomy information. Whilst I’ve been very happy with the performance of WordPress – the software which powers this part of Ostomyland – the theme on it was a heavily edited existing theme, and so it didn’t fit in with the look of the other major part of Ostomyland; our community portal, powered by Invision Power Board. So, this time around I’ve rolled up my sleeves and given the main site a visual overhaul.

The main aims of which were to try to give as “clean” look to the site, as well as being visibly more identifiable with the community board’s existing look. This means there’s more dark blue and white areas, and ofcourse our usual logo is still sat at the top in pride of place. Our little mascot – the ever loveable and furry “Fuzzbutt” is also clearly introduced to our visitors as being part of the header, as she sits there welcoming everyone to the site. 

Also, for a first on the site we have a stock photo in the header of a family of all ages. This is an attempt to subliminally show that Ostomies can impact people of all ages, as well as the family members. Also, I’m hoping it shows how the community itself is a close, and tight-knit one, like a second family.

As the website is still powered by WordPress, the basic mechanics and blog-like look of the site remains, so everyone who has used the previous Oland main site should be able to use this one just the same.

My biggest aim in the future is to give Oland a professionally design website, with it’s own native CMS running in the background rather than say WordPress or Joomla or Drupal, which would give us the independent and professional look I’m always trying to achieve for the site. At the moment, I’m the first one to admit that my skills as a hobby webmaster are no where near good enough to achieve this, so in the future it may be necessary to hire someone to do design work for me. It would be very expensive though, but we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it. As it is, I’m very happy with the new look, and I hope you find it easier and less cluttered to use.

As always, comments are welcomed, and as before every news posting on the site will have a comments page built in to it offering you the chance to comment via the post’s own comment box, or via a Facebook powered comment box which is a doddle to use (although a bit temperamental to use… I know the feeling well, lol).

Have a great week!

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You can read more on Malcolm Design, and their range of products and services by visiting the newly launched Ostomyland “Malcolm Design” page here, or by visiting their website www.malcolmdesign.co.nz.

Dont forget to tell them we sent you!

Useful Links:
The “Malcolm Design” page on Ostomyland
Malcolm Design Website

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