Abstract: A continence device in the form of a cube or block of resilient foam material capable of being collapsed into a small volume condition and encapsulated in a capsule of gelatin or the like and which includes a string or cord passing through the material and connected with a traction bead engaged with a distal surface of the block or cube or foam material. The continence device provides for voluntary trapping or blockage of gastrointestinal effluent when voluntary and natural control is lacking such as when a person has had a colostomy, ileostomy, or in other situations involving fecal incontinence. A introducer is provided for inserting the capsule, the reduced volume soft foam material therein and the line or cord and traction bead into a body orifice such as a stomal orifice, anus of the like.

Abstract: A cover for a body fluid drainage bag (10) and the tubing (12) thereof comprises an envelope shaped bag cover (14) and a tubing cover (16). The tube cover comprises an elongated sheet of flexible material having first and second mating tube-forming attachment devices (78 and 82) at opposite side edges thereof so that the side edges (76 and 8) can be held together to form a tubular shape about the tubing of a body fluid drainage bag. The tubing cover is separate from the envelope shaped bag cover, however, it is attachable to the envelope shaped bag cover and can extend down into any one of a plurality of openings (54,56, and 58) into the envelope-shaped bag cover. Two spaced closing flaps (48 and 50) are at an open edge (59) of the envelope-shaped bag cover. The envelope-shaped bag cover has a viewing window (34) therein so that one can see accumulated body fluids in the body fluid drainage bag therein.