How does a small bowel stoma affect the body

The main effects of small bowel stoma on the body are daily inability to perform strenuous exercise, malnutrition, stoma infection, stoma stenosis and so on. 1. Can not be strenuous exercise: strenuous exercise will lead to bleeding in the patient’s fistula, but also lead to discomfort caused by the stoma bag pulling the small intestine. Therefore, patients usually can not be strenuous exercise. 2. malnutrition: for patients with fistula after resection of a long small intestine, due to the reduction of the absorption area of the small intestine, which can lead to malabsorption of nutrients. In addition, patients may also have frequent diarrhea. 3. fistula infection: some patients due to improper care of the fistula, resulting in the skin near the fistula corroded by alkaline intestinal fluid, resulting in fistula infection, dermatitis. 4. Fistula stenosis: patients due to the formation of a large number of scarring near the fistula fistula contraction or fistula near the muscle contraction and other reasons, resulting in patients with fistula stenosis, which led to the patient defecation exhaust obstacles. For patients who have undergone small bowel fistula, should follow the doctor’s instructions for follow-up care and treatment, in order to avoid complications.