Mixing a barrier ring with paste
Posted: 2025-05-12 22:02:17
So I've been having this problem where the inside of the convex wafer bag was rubbing on the top of my stoma causing a slight irritation and a graneoulma was forming. I had a graneoulma on my peristomal skin next to the stoma and made it go away by adding more paste and a piece of cut out from the wafer hole to avoid the wafer hitting it, so I said to myself 'well why not combine the two?"
So I dug into my old supplies and found a box of thick rings, stretched one out and placed it on the back of the wafer about 1/4" away from the cut wafer hole and up to the 2" edge of my convex bubble. Then squirted my normal three bead rings of paste around the stoma like I normally do and sandwiched the whole mess together.
Sure enough it worked marvelously, now neither graneoulma are being irritated and hopefully as a bonus the gap between the stoma and the ring will act as a holder to keep the thick paste from running which it does do that in our high 80° F heat. I use extra large barrier strips around the wafer adhesive to better hold the entire mess in place.
Note that I do have a half flush stoma in a belly fold which has been most difficult to address but as time progresses I am getting better at being more problem solving creative about these various little issues. Paste has its attributes as being a great unevenness filler and not irritating granuloma's unlike something more solid will, but too thick paste has its own problems, like running.
So anyway I thought I'd share this little tip to let lurkers know that combining a ring and paste does work if they find themselves needing a bit more height.
So I dug into my old supplies and found a box of thick rings, stretched one out and placed it on the back of the wafer about 1/4" away from the cut wafer hole and up to the 2" edge of my convex bubble. Then squirted my normal three bead rings of paste around the stoma like I normally do and sandwiched the whole mess together.
Sure enough it worked marvelously, now neither graneoulma are being irritated and hopefully as a bonus the gap between the stoma and the ring will act as a holder to keep the thick paste from running which it does do that in our high 80° F heat. I use extra large barrier strips around the wafer adhesive to better hold the entire mess in place.
Note that I do have a half flush stoma in a belly fold which has been most difficult to address but as time progresses I am getting better at being more problem solving creative about these various little issues. Paste has its attributes as being a great unevenness filler and not irritating granuloma's unlike something more solid will, but too thick paste has its own problems, like running.
So anyway I thought I'd share this little tip to let lurkers know that combining a ring and paste does work if they find themselves needing a bit more height.