Enterostomy Concerns

After you leave the hospital, contact your doctor if any of the following occurs:

• Redness, swelling, increasing pain, excessive bleeding, or any discharge from the stoma site
• Pus or yellow/green discharge from the incision
• Nausea and/or vomiting that you cannot control with the medicines you were given after surgery, or which persist for more than two days after discharge from the hospital
• Signs of infection, including fever and chills
• Severe abdominal pain
• Cough, shortness of breath, or chest pain
• Pain and/or swelling in your feet, calves, or legs
• Pain, burning, urgency, frequency of urination, or persistent bleeding in the urine
• Blood in your stool, or black, tarry stools
• Diarrhea
• If you had a feeding tube placed, food cannot pass through the tube
• The tube comes out or leaks
• If you had an ostomy bag placed, and there is no stool collecting in the bag.