Skin itch

I had something very similar and it turned out I have an allergy to the durahesive on the wafer. Mine turned into a bad bad rash- so try to do something to nip it in the bud. Can you talk to a stoma nurse. I am using stomahesive instead.

Good luck

Liza, do you mean the skin on the outside edges of your wafer is itchy? Or, the skin closer to the stoma?

If you are talking about the skin around the outer part of the wafer being itchy, i know exactly what you mean--happens to me frequently, especially if I wear pants that the wasteband pushes down hard on part of the wafer.

My itch never turned into a rash, it just was annoying. :) I now use a skin-prep wipe (which does cut down on my wafer's wear-time...I get about 3 days out of each wafer instead of 5 like I used to), but my skin hardly ever itches anymore. I also used to get small pink bumps on occasion, but again that has gone away by using the skin prep wipes. The wipes leave a clear, thin film on your skin that protests it from the paste and wafer on top.


Hope you find a solution that works for you! That itch can drive you nuts because there really is no way to actually scratch it well!!

-E

Sometimes the foods you eat can cause wafer breakdown more rapidly and when this happens, the itch can drive you crazy. I found that I can usually stop or slow the itchiness by rinsing the inside of the pouch with cold water and be sure to splash it up around the stoma really well. That usually buys me 1 or 2 addt'l days of wear time. I usually get 7 days wear time anyway and can be really lazy about the change time. I also use Eakin Seals which really prevents breakdown of the wafer around the stoma opening of the wafer.

Let us know how it is going and what is working for you. It may help others with the same questions.