ILEOSTOMIPOSE

• Main Author: BALLAN AKEEL
• Format: Patent
• Language: Danish
• Published: 16.07.1986
• Edition: 4
• Subjects: BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF,TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, E.G. STENTS; FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; FIRST-AID KITS; FOMENTATION; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HYGIENE; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; PROSTHESES; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS

An ileostomy bag made of two essentially identical plastic foil walls, with rinse opening on top and emptying opening at the bottom and with an inlet opening in the back wall for emptying the bowels is asymmetrically lopsided in such a way that a vertical line through the centre of the emptying opening is shifted at least 3 cm in the side direction of a vertical line through the centre of the rinse opening, and is provided near the emptying opening with a bottom piece or ledge, which slopes gently downward toward the emptying opening and is partially located perpendicularly beneath the rinse opening. The result is that the bag can be easily emptied and/or flushed down into a toilet bowl while the use is sitting on the toilet seat, without risk of soiling clothing, and without there being a risk that the bag because of the skewed stress will partly or entirely escape from the fastening to the user's body. Both the rinse opening and emptying opening are preferably located on nozzlelike extensions of the same width as the openings and therefore are narrower than the bag as a whole. The bottom piece or ledge normally forms an angle of 10-40 degrees, preferably 20-30 degrees, with the horizontal plane. The bag can have, at the side of a vertical projection of the rinse opening, which is opposite the emptying opening, a bulge which smoothly passes into the bottom piece. For reasons of balance, a vertical line through the centre of the rinse opening when the bag is laid flat can divide the walls into two pieces, of which the piece with the bulge has an area of at least 30 per cent and at most 70 per cent, preferably around 50 per cent of the wall area.