best way to clean bottom of drainable pouch?

ddd45 said...
It all takes about 1/3 to 1/2 the time it took to wipe my bottom in my "coloned" days. One of the huge bennies of an ostomy. You get out of the bathroom way faster then if you had a colon, even if it wasn't diseases with UC.

For some people maybe, but not for me! When my colon was healthy, I was always SUPER quick in the bathroom: poop, wipe, and done in under thirty seconds. (But I was crazy regular when I was in remission - my gut ran like clockwork: 3x a day, usually about 1 hour after meals.) Even most of the time I had UC it was pretty close to that quick, except when I was REALLY sick and I would just sit on the toilet in pain for like fifteen minutes passing mostly blood.

Now compared to that it takes me forever to empty and clean out the tail of the bag, but probably because I still use the one with the clip and am OCD about cleaning the inside of the tail (below the clip) really well so it doesn't smell or get on anything. I use ddd45's strategy with the toilet paper mostly, but it takes me more like four or five wads to get all the output from the inside of the tail, and even then using multiple areas on each TP wad to get more than one swipe out of each... so to get it all the way clean my TP-wrapped finger goes in the tail to swipe at least like eight times... seems like it takes forever. If I use TP for the first swipe and then a baby wipe after that, I can get it done a lot faster.

If this ostomy was a permanent arrangement, I would definitely experiment more with the other types of supplies out there to find one that would get me in and out of the bathroom faster.

Well I've had my ileostomy for almost 9 months now and it is easy as now to clean.
I empty before I pee as well (unless I'm busting) then I fold 2 squares of tp and do 2swipes. Then I wrap 1 square around my finger and just quickly wipe inside edges. Fold back up and I'm done.
Takes like 1 minute.
I agree there is no point to overcleaning a bag full of crap that will constantly be full of crap.
However I do change my 1 piece every morning.
I use coloplast shallow convex 1 piece system.
Love it.
Easy.
Clean.
No skin or leak issues whatsoever.

I use bags with velcro closures therefore the tail end is stiff due to the foam bit. I just swipe over the end, squeezing as I go and make sure its clean and roll up my bag and I'm good to go. No odour, no fuss!

Hi, everyone, I am just now learning how to empty a drainable pouch while remaining fully dressed.


While fully dressed and emptying Convatec drainable pouch how do you:

1. keep your shirt and undershirt out of the way and

2. keep your pants from sliding down your legs onto the floor? I am thinking of a cramped toilet space (like on an airplane) where you can't keep your legs spread wide to hold up your pants.


Thanks.