Kind of a strange situation/question here...  I'm about two weeks out from my first surgery- proctocolectomy with pouch creation and a (temporary) ileostomy.  I'm still in the hospital, due to several complications- bleeding during and after surgery, pain management issues, an infection or/and leaking, severe dehydration, etc., etc., very much ad nauseam.

The last two or three days a new and weird thing has cropped up- frequently (but not always) the output from my ostomy smells and looks very much like it's fermenting in my gut- it's slightly foamy and smells- strongly- like rising bread dough or beer wort.   Normally, it has smelled, well, pretty shitty- fecal smells, bile, acid, etc.  When it is foamy, though, it doesn't even smell particularly unpleasant- not as nice an aroma as actual bread, but no worse than a slightly off sourdough, say.  It's also accompanied/preceded by some pretty serious cramping and gas pain. 

I've described it to my doc and ostomy nurse, but they don't seem to take it very seriously- just saying things like "a yeast infection wouldn't necessarily smell like that," or "I don't see any indications of a yeast infection in the skin around your stoma".  I'm not sure we're really communicating, but this is uncomfortable enough, and, frankly, strange enough to concern me.

Has anyone else experienced/heard of anything like this?  Is it something I should be worried about, or is it just a fairly normal reaction that only seems weird because it's new to me?

Thanks