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Sunday, April 17, 2011

THE STOMA PATIENT WHO USED MATCHSTICK PASTE


One day Bernard Cheeseman went to see the stoma nurse about his bag leaking all the time. She looked and got out some matchsticks and stuck them around the stoma, together with a tube of Fish paste, and gave a load of matchsticks to Bernard Cheeseman to paste on his skin round the stoma, combined with a tube of boiled paste, known as fish paste.


Matchstick paste is a skin barrier paste made from matches.
You take a load of matches out of a box and stick them onto your skin surrounding the stoma, together with tube  paste which you have too boil in a saucepan before you could smear it on your skin around the stoma.
You rub the boiled paste onto your skin with a knife and spread it with water, mixed in with the matchstick paste.
Once this is done you use a knife to cut a hole in the base plate and stick the base plate on your skin with chewing gum so that it can stay on for a week.
For the stoma bag you use a bag consisting of a rucksack, which you wear over the stoma to catch the effluent.

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