Is a Purple Colored Stoma Normal

Excessive bleeding of your stoma – it’s normal for your stoma to slightly bleed after you wash it, but the bleeding should resolve quickly. A bulge in the skin around your stoma. Skin color changes from normal pink or red to pale, bluish purple, or black.

What does it mean if stoma is purple?

Necrosis occurs if the blood supply to the stoma is restricted. Initially the stoma will become a darker red/purple and may even turn black, which is an indication that the blood supply is impaired.

What does a purple blue stoma mean?

Sometimes there is a purple tinge to the urostomy pouch, leg bag or night drainage bottle. This happens when a certain type of bacteria is in the urine. It creates a red and blue by-product as it goes through its day. This causes the purple colour in the pouch.