Urostomy Side Effects and Warnings

Possible Complications

Complications are rare, but no procedure is completely free of risk. If you are planning to have a urostomy, your doctor will review a list of possible complications, which may include:

• Skin irritations
• Fluid build-up in the abdomen
• Urine flow blockage
• Damage to other organs
• Bleeding
• Infection
• Blood clots
• Adverse reaction to the anesthesia (eg, light-headedness, low blood pressure, wheezing)

Factors that may increase the risk of complications include:

• Smoking
• Obesity
• Previous surgery or radiation in the area

Call Your Doctor

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

• Signs of infection, including fever and chills
• Pain in the back
• Poor appetite
• Redness, swelling, increasing pain, excessive bleeding, or discharge from the incision and/or stoma site
• Change in stoma size
• Nausea and/or vomiting
• Pain that you cannot control with the medicines you have been given
• No urine coming out of the urostomy, extreme cloudiness or pus in the urine, a bad odor to the urine
• Cough, shortness of breath, or chest pain

If you think you have an emergency, CALL 911.