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Posted 5/13/2012 7:50 AM (GMT 0)
Okay... please remember.. I'm new at this so some of my questions may sound crazy.


I have been told I can put mints in my bag to help with any smell I may have. (didn't have a smell in the hospital at all, nurses were always surprised--but since I got home and back on my garlicy diet, I have odor when I empty)

I have tried two products I was given for the smell. One of them, I hated the smell of it itself so it really wasn't helpful.

One nurse told me if I had an odor with my output and wanted to do something about, I could put a mint in my bag and that was a reasonably cheap way of handling it.

Okay.. What kind of mint are we talking about? Starlight? cinnamon or peppermint or spearmint Altoid? what? I don't want anything that is going to possibly weaken the bag or irritate my stoma if it settles near my stoma when I'm asleep or something.

Jen
Posted 5/13/2012 2:08 PM (GMT 0)
Hi Mystique,

Most will use tic tacs whether its peppermint or spearmint doesn't matter and I have used them before and personally didn't find it helped much but others swear by them so I guess its worth a try for you too. But another thing you can use that I have found to work well is peroxide the medicinal peroxide you can get in the supermarket, just a small amount of that eliminates odours. Good luck hope this helps

Doreen

Posted 5/13/2012 3:01 PM (GMT 0)
When I had my end ileostomy, I would drop one or two peppermint Altoids in my bag each time I emptied. That seemed to keep the smell to a minimum. Also, I use a product called Just A Drop- it's a small bottle of liquid deoderizer that you put a drop or two of into the toilet bowl before you "go", or, in this case, empty. It reeeaaally works to trap the odor in the bowl. I don't know how, but it does! I bring a travel size bottle with me everywhere.
Posted 5/13/2012 6:04 PM (GMT 0)
M-9 drops due the trick, but I always forget to keep dropping them in the bag. The only time my output has an odor is if I eat eggs or fish. Fish is the worst, LOL. Once, I had an appt with an ostomy nurse and had forgotten to NOT eat fish the night before. I apologized in advance, and told her I promised it was not due to poor hygiene "down there," LOL. She laughed and said I shouldn't worry. She said in her opinion, curry has the worst smell of all.
Posted 5/13/2012 8:59 PM (GMT 0)
Oh my! maybe it isn't entirely my garlic loving self! I have been eating a lot of eggs. And since the honey hates beef and isn't a fan of chicken either, fish is a main staple in our house! Oh well.

thanks for the suggestions!
Posted 5/14/2012 2:09 AM (GMT 0)
mints didnt work for me, andi was using altoids.......i only found that the liquid drop deodorizers worked for me, and even so, i had to use like triple the amount of drops they suggest......i found one partiular brand to work the best for me but cant remember the name at the moment, but it was a lubricating deodorizer......oh! just remembered, it was reliamed lubricating deodorizer.
Posted 5/14/2012 3:51 AM (GMT 0)
Hubby eats a lot of seafood and that is a killer. If he chews 2 of the DEVROM tablets before he eats fish (when he remembers) it really does seem to help out in the odor department for him.

If we are going out and going to be at someone's house he is much better at remembering to do this regardless of what he has eaten or will be eating to keep the odor down.
Posted 5/14/2012 3:51 AM (GMT 0)
I never tried mints, I think m9 works really well. And I try to only eat fish right before a change day because that smell does not leave! Blue food coloring and ham smell really bad too!
Posted 5/14/2012 4:14 AM (GMT 0)
omg, so true, fish does not leave....now imagine eating a filet o fish from mcdonalds! barf! ..... i only did that once, thats for sure!!!!
Posted 5/14/2012 12:45 PM (GMT 0)
Mints didn't work for me -- the M9 and Hydrogen peroxide both work .... I like the peroxide because it's cheap and it's clear.... I just seem to always spill the M9 and dye things blue ....
Posted 5/15/2012 5:38 AM (GMT 0)
XDD

Thanks for asking this question! I wouldn't have even thought to ask it.
I've been using M9 drops and they work really well but what blueglass says is true - I keep accidentally dying things blue! I'll have to try hydrogen peroxide tomorrow :P
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