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The bags that collect stool or urine from a stoma. They come as one piece or as a bag that clips onto a separate sticky base, in closed, drainable and urostomy versions, with curved (convex) bases for stomas that sit flat or below the skin.
In the United States ostomy pouches and accessories are class I devices under 21 CFR 876.5900 (product codes EXB collector, ostomy; EZQ pouch, colostomy; EXH bag, urinary, ileostomy). In England they are prescribed from Part IXC of the NHS Drug Tariff, which in November 2026 lists 1,619 ileostomy bag rows, 1,410 colostomy bag rows, 783 urostomy bag rows and 1,120 rows of two-piece systems. Closed bags suit firm colostomy output; drainable bags suit ileostomies; urostomy bags have a tap. Convex baseplates press gently around a flush or retracted stoma to improve the seal, for example B. Braun's Softima convex range. Part IXC also lists stoma caps (14 rows) and colostomy plugs (4 rows, Coloplast's Conseal), used by some people with a regular colostomy, and a leakage notification system (10 rows, Coloplast's Heylo), a sensor layer under the baseplate that alerts a phone when output is spreading under it.
The largest suppliers by Part IXC rows are Coloplast (936), AMI Medical (798, mostly belts), Marlen (612), Nu-Hope (612), CUI (564), Salts (541), Dansac (530), Unora (496), ConvaTec (487), Pelican (483), Hollister (477) and Welland (354). The busiest bag lines are SenSura Mio (Coloplast), Moderma Flex (Hollister), Confidence BE (Salts), Welland Aura and Pelican Platinum. Continent diversions such as the Kock pouch are emptied with a catheter instead of a bag (FDA code KPH, catheter, rectal for continent ileostomy).
A hydrocolloid or silicone adhesive baseplate cut or moulded to the stoma seals to the skin; a pouch attached by adhesive, a mechanical ring or a single-piece weld collects output, with a filter to vent gas and an outlet or tap for drainable designs.
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