A ostomy-changing facilitating device for absorbing fluids from the stoma during the change of the more permanent ostomy appliance. The ostomy-changing facilitating device includes a tubular member having a length of approximately 3 to 4 inches and having a diameter adapted to effectively surround a stoma and also having an open top end, an open bottom end and a bore extending therethrough with absorbent material filling the bore of the tubular member and being of a wick-type of material so that fluids coming from the stoma is absorbed into the wick-type of material to prevent infections during the changing of a more permanent ostomy appliance.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

1. Field of the Invention

The present invention relates to a two piece appliance changing device and more particularly pertains to a new ostomy-changing facilitating device for absorbing fluids from the stoma during the change of the more permanent ostomy appliance.

2. Description of the Prior Art

The use of a two piece appliance changing device is known in the prior art. More specifically, a two piece appliance changing device heretofore devised and utilized are known to consist basically of familiar, expected and obvious structural configurations, notwithstanding the myriad of designs encompassed by the crowded prior art which have been developed for the fulfillment of countless objectives and requirements.

While these devices fulfill their respective, particular objectives and requirements, the aforementioned patents do not disclose a new ostomy-changing facilitating device. The inventive device includes a tubular member having a length of approximately 3 to 4 inches and having a diameter adapted to effectively surround a stoma and also having an open top end, an open bottom end and a bore extending therethrough with absorbent material filling the bore of the tubular member and being of a wick-type of material so that fluids coming from the stoma is absorbed into the wick-type of material to prevent infections during the changing of a more permanent ostomy appliance.

In these respects, the ostomy-changing facilitating device according to the present invention substantially departs from the conventional concepts and designs of the prior art, and in so doing provides an apparatus primarily developed for the purpose of absorbing fluids from the stoma during the change of the more permanent ostomy appliance.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

In view of the foregoing disadvantages inherent in the known types of two piece appliance changing device now present in the prior art, the present invention provides a new ostomy-changing facilitating device construction wherein the same can be utilized for absorbing fluids from the stoma during the change of the more permanent ostomy appliance.

The general purpose of the present invention, which will be described subsequently in greater detail, is to provide a new ostomy-changing facilitating device which has many of the advantages of the two piece appliance changing device mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new ostomy-changing facilitating device which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art two piece appliance changing device, either alone or in any combination thereof.

To attain this, the present invention generally comprises a tubular member having a length of approximately 3 to 4 inches and having a diameter adapted to effectively surround a stoma and also having an open top end, an open bottom end and a bore extending therethrough with absorbent material filling the bore of the tubular member and being of a wick-type of material so that fluids coming from the stoma is absorbed into the wick-type of material to prevent infections during the changing of a more permanent ostomy appliance.

It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a new ostomy-changing facilitating device which has many of the advantages of the two piece appliance changing device mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new ostomy-changing facilitating device which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art two piece appliance changing device, either alone or in any combination thereof.

It is another object of the present invention to provide a new ostomy-changing facilitating device which may be easily and efficiently manufactured and marketed.

It is a further object of the present invention to provide a new ostomy-changing facilitating device which is of a durable and reliable construction.

An even further object of the present invention is to provide a new ostomy-changing facilitating device which is susceptible of a low cost of manufacture with regard to both materials and labor, and which accordingly is then susceptible of low prices of sale to the consuming public, thereby making such ostomy-changing facilitating device economically available to the buying public.

Still another object of the present invention is to provide a new ostomy-changing facilitating device for absorbing fluids from the stoma during the change of the more permanent ostomy appliance.

Yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new ostomy-changing facilitating device which includes a tubular member having a length of approximately 3 to 4 inches and having a diameter adapted to effectively surround a stoma and also having an open top end, an open bottom end and a bore extending therethrough with absorbent material filling the bore of the tubular member and being of a wick-type of material so that fluids coming from the stoma is absorbed into the wick-type of material to prevent infections during the changing of a more permanent ostomy appliance.

Still yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new ostomy-changing facilitating device that greatly prevents infection to the stoma during the change of ostomy appliances.

Even still another object of the present invention is to provide a new ostomy-changing facilitating device that adds to the comfort of the user during the changing of more permanent ostomy appliances.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT

With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to FIGS. 1 through 5 thereof, a new ostomy-changing facilitating device embodying the principles and concepts of the present invention and generally designated by the reference numeral 10 will be described.

As best illustrated in FIGS. 1 through 5 , the ostomy-changing facilitating device 10 generally comprises a tubular member 11 having an open top end 12 , an open bottom end 13 and a bore 14 extending therethrough with the bottom end 12 being adapted to be disposed over and about a stoma 17 . The tubular member 11 is essentially a cylindrical member having a rounded annular lip 15 extending along an edge of the cylindrical member at the bottom end 13 for facilitating contact with a user's skin 19 about the stoma 17 . The cylindrical member 11 has a length of approximately 3 to 4 inches and has a diameter which is adapted to generally and effectively surround and seal about the stoma 17 . The cylindrical member 11 is adapted to allow a skin barrier member 18 to slide down over and about the cylindrical member 11 and to adhere to a user's skin 19 around the stoma 17 . An absorbent material 16 is conventionally disposed or wedged in the bore 14 of the tubular member 11 for absorbing fluids from the stoma 17 . The absorbent material 16 generally fills the bore 15 of the cylindrical member 11 with the absorbent material 16 being essentially a wick-type of material which draws fluids into itself.

In use, the user swabs about the stoma 17 with a cleansing member after the permanent two piece ostomy appliance is removed from over the stoma 17 , and places the bottom end 13 of the cylindrical member 11 over the stoma 17 to draw the fluids coming from the stoma 17 into the absorbent material 16 which is wedged inside the cylindrical member 11 .