Regardless of the type of stoma patient, in principle, there is no need to avoid eating, only a balanced diet, more fresh fruits and vegetables, to keep the bowel movement smooth. When eating, try to separate wet and dry foods to make the stool take shape, and drink more sour milk to regulate the intestinal flora of the stoma and to regulate intestinal function.
Avoid foods that are not easily digestible, produce a lot of gas, or are irritating. At the usual meal, chew slowly and increase sample by sample when trying new varieties of food so as not to cause diarrhea.
For patients with urostomy, special attention should be paid to the acidity and alkalinity of food in the diet. Because in abnormally acidic urine, stones of uric acid and amino acids are easily formed, while excessive alkalinity of urine can also form crystals of phosphate, carbonate or oxalate (see the picture below for white uric acid crystals).
Even uric acid crystals cause ulceration of the intestinal mucosa and infiltration of the skin around the enterostomy. In case of the above situation, you can first wipe the crystals precipitated on the skin with neutral soap or white vinegar 1 part with 3 parts of water (saline) moistened with gauze, but you should be careful not to wipe on the mucous membrane of the stoma as much as possible. Acidic foods include grains, bread, cookies, rice, noodles, livestock, poultry lean meat, fish head, animal offal, eggs, plums, peanuts, walnuts; alkaline foods include milk, fruits, almonds, mustard, raisins, spinach, foods made of baking powder; neutral foods include vegetable oil, lard, butter, white sugar, fruit sugar, coffee, honey.