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Ostomy Care
- CeraPlus™ Line of Products A guide to our lines of products that meet your needs for security and skin health
- CeraPlus™ Product Selector* Selecting the Right Ostomy Product Can Make All the Difference
- Security and Skin Health CeraPlus™ Products help keep healthy skin healthy
- Testimonials Hear from users of our CeraPlus™ Products
- Learning Centre Resources to help you live your best life with an ostomy
- Clinical Education Educational resources for Healthcare Professionals
- Quick Educational Tools Helpful PDFs and videos for before and after ostomy surgery, including international resources
CeraPlus™ Product Selector
Selecting the Right Ostomy Product Can Make All the Difference
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Continence Care
- Discover Our Continence Care Products Our range of intermittent catheters has something for everyone who self-catheterizes — whatever their condition
- UTI Prevention Videos and articles about how to avoid urinary tract infections and improve your quality of life
- Learning Center Resources to help you learn more about bladder health, intermittent catheterization, and living life with a neurological condition
- Quick Educational Tools Helpful PDFs and videos to increase your continence care knowledge
- Clinical Education Educational resources for Healthcare Professionals
VaPro™ Intermittent Catheters
With 100% No Touch Protection, whatever you touch won't touch VaPro™ catheters
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Healthy skin helps make life better
The condition of the skin around your stoma greatly affects how well the skin barrier can adhere, as well as your comfort and quality of life. Maintaining healthy peristomal skin from the start is our ultimate goal.
Try CeraPlus skin barrier today
The difference is ceramide
CeraPlus skin barrier is infused with ceramide, the skin's naturally occurring protection against dryness. It's designed to maintain adhesive properties, and features a formulation infused with ceramide to help:
- Protect the skin's natural moisture barrier1
- Maintain good peristomal skin health1
- Decrease transepidermal water loss (TEWL) from damaged or eroded skin1
The role of moisture in healthy skin
When you remove your ostomy barrier, cells from the outermost layer of skin are also removed with it. The loss of these protective cells allows more moisture from inside your body to escape into the environment. This is called transepidermal water loss (TEWL). Increased rates of water loss can make the skin more vulnerable to damage and peristomal skin complications.
Choose CeraPlus skin barrier — the ostomy barrier designed to help ensure healthy skin.
From the Ostomy Learning Center
How to Maintain Your Skin's Moisture
The health of the skin around your stoma can directly impact your quality of life. Repeated barrier removal can lead to skin that is dry and prone to injury. Both your barrier choice and your skin care routine can positively impact the health of the skin around your stoma.
6 Tips to Avoiding Ostomy Leakage
Leakage of your stomal output can happen for a variety of reasons. Making sure your ostomy pouch adheres properly will go a long way towards preventing leaks. Explore some prevention tips to help you avoid leaks.
The ceramide-infused formulation of the CeraPlus skin barrier may provide protection against the potentially damaging effects of repeated skin barrier use.
- Coderch L, Lopez O, del la Maza A, Parra J. Ceramides and Skin Function, Am J Clin Dermatol 2003; 4 (2).
- Elias P. (1988) Structure and function of the stratum corneum permeability barrier, https://doi.org/10.1002/ddr.430130203.
- Nybaek H, Lophagen S, Karlsmark T, Bang Knudsen D, Jemec GBE. Stratum corneum integrity as a predictor for peristomal skin problems in ostomates. Br J Dermatol. 2010;162:357-361.
- Grove G, Houster T, Sibbald G, Salvadalena G. Measuring epidermal effects of ostomy skin barriers. Skin Res Technol. 2019;25:179-186. https://doi.org/10.1111.srt.12630.
- Nichols T, Houser T, Grove G. Comparing the skin stripping effects of three ostomy skin barriers infused with cermide, honey or aloe. Journal of Stomal Therapy Australia 2019;39(2):14-18.
- The Impact of Pruritus on Quality of Life The Skin Equivalent of Pain Seema P. Kini, MD, MSCR; Laura K. DeLong, MD MPH; Emir Veledar, PhD; Anne Marie McKenzie Brown, MD; Michael Schaufele, MD; Suephy C. Chen, MD, MS.
- Leblanc K, Whiteley I, McNichol L, Salvadalena G, Gray M. Peristomal Medical Adhesive-Related Skin Injury: Results of an International Consensus Meeting J Wound Ostomy Continence Nurs; 2019; 46(2):125-136.
