Warning about using Flonaze as a skin protectant

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Flonaze (the nose spray) is sometimes wrongly recommended by online enthusiastic people who claim it feels better when they use it on Illeistomy leak wounds. To that I can attest it does.

However it was because I was doing things wrong, like washing the area with dehydrating antibacterial soap and drinking coffee, which made my leak burns more severe than normal due to the diarrhea effect of caffeine. So I was in pain, and Flonaze came to my rescue but at a price.

Flonaze is not an otosmy product, it's NOT an adhesive so what happens if it's used on leak wounds or other areas adhesive needs to bond firmly, it creates a smoother surface which pastes or rings don't attach well and output gets under it and causes the leak wounds to remain.

So the correct method is as follows:

1: Wash area with nothing but plain water. You don't want to upset the natural skin lubrication balance using drying soaps, ointments, conditioners etc.

2: Blow dry the area well.

3: Use one grain high dusting of stoma powder on only wounds if possible if needed. Brush or blow dry some more.

4: Use spray skin protectant and apply a light coat around stoma. Allow 30+ seconds to dry. Then another coat applied to the entire adhesive area and again allow 30+ seconds to dry . Use a blow dryer and then finger test the skin is dry.

5: Apply your no-sting paste or rings, wafer etc.

If you want healthy skin around the stoma again, just follow this recommend process. Occasionally you may have to gently scrub the skin with a wet wash cloth to remove built up skin protectant and/or dead skin cells.