Is Ostomy hereditary?

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No it's not a hereditary condition

Posted Sep 8, 2017 by ShelleyMLC 2502

No I do not believe that ostomys are hereditary it use to be believed it was but now researchers do not think so

Posted Sep 8, 2017 by Laura 2001

I don't think I asked me can run in families always. In the case of my ostomy I am the only one in my family that has one, but I also was a premature baby in 1975 and where the hospital had to purchase an incubator because it was too small to have one.

Posted Feb 24, 2019 by Dawn 2500

Is Ostomy hereditary?

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I was diagnosed with CROHN'S at age 14. It changed my life forever. Thirty years later at age 44 I have been through it all. Test after test , drug after drug , tube feeding , TPN , many many hospital stays and way too many IV's. I had a bowel resect...

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I was 24 when first diagosed with FAP, but had grown up knowing I would most likely get FAP. I was the 3rd known generation to have it from my Mothers side and my Son was diagonsed at 18. However we had Genetic testing done to find out if my Grandson...

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