'There is nothing repulsive about my son': Mom responds to rude stranger who 'shrieked' and told her to cover her sick toddler's colostomy bags

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A mother has taken to Facebook to respond to a cruel stranger who voiced disgust at her young son's medical condition, after words failed her in the moment.

Dallas Lynn from South Carolina was shopping in Walmart with her three-year-old son Jameus, who was wearing colostomy bags because his colon still wasn't fully formed.

A woman behind Dallas noticed the bags, and didn't hold back from sharing her unflattering opinion about them.

Dallas Lynn from South Carolina took to Facebook to talk about her son Jameus' colostomy bags

The three-year-old wore the bags because his colon was not fully formed and he needed medical help expelling waste

The incident, which happened a year ago but has recently gone viral after Dallas re-shared it, has caught the attention of tens of thousands of horrified supporters.

These days, little Jameus has a cecostomy tube in his stomach, but last year he was still wearing colostomy bags.

Dallas explained that she usually put a onesie on under his shirt to keep the bags in place and stop him from tugging at them, but that day she'd skipped it. So when she picked Jameus up to hold him, his shirt rode up his belly showing the bags. 

'There was an older woman in line behind me who caught a glimpse and shrieked a little before she said to me, "Why in the world would you let someone do that to him?"' Dallas wrote.

The heartless and rude reaction left her shocked. 

Dallas wrote about shopping at Walmart when her son's bags were exposed, prompting a rude reaction from a stranger.

'I turned around speechless and just looked at her before she continued and asked why he had them,' Dallas wrote. 'I gave her the short version and basically said, "His colon didn't finish forming so he needed them."'

Naturally, Dallas didn't owe the nosy woman an explanation, and she left out the details of Jameus' rare diseases, called Hirschsprung's — but that didn't stop the woman from saying more.

'She then goes, "Well I am sorry but I just think that is so 'repulsing', can you please keep his shirt down?"' Dallas went on, putting the woman's misspoken word in quotes.

'At this point I just wanted to shake this woman and scream, "What is wrong with you?!" But instead, I told her to have a good night and went to another line.'

'So now I'm sharing this picture,' she said, posting a picture of her little boy with his bags fully visible, 'because there is nothing repulsive about my son. Stomas and ostomies seem to be a taboo, when in reality, over 500,000 Americans have one. My sons disease may be rare, but his stomas are not.'

Jameus was born with Hirschsprung's disease, and his body does not properly expel of waste

She went on to educate others, explaining that a stoma is a 'surgically created opening that allows body to expel waste'.

'Was this the first choice of a life I would have chosen for my son? Absolutely not,' she said. 'But this was his only shot at life. When he was two weeks old, his colon ruptured. It left him with a life threatening infection that nearly killed him. His stoma saved his life.'

'There is a very good chance he will have these for the rest of his life and if he does, it will be my job to teach him a positive body image... It will be my job to teach him to love himself, and his bags. Had he been a couple years older and been able to understand the ignorance the lady was spewing in line behind us, how much of a negative impact do you think that would have had on him?'

Because of his health conditions, Jameus has had 24 surgeries and procedures in his short life, as well as infections that landed him in the hospital.

Jameus has had 24 surgeries and procedures in his short life and is far from done

'See what that woman doesn't understand is, when my son is healthy, he is no different than any other two-year-old. He runs, plays, swims and goes to daycare,' she said. 'When he's healthy... You wouldn't know he gets painful home dilation and irrigation treatments twice a day every day. You wouldn't know that every day a catheter is put into his stoma to "feed" it stool twice a day in the hopes of growing his colon.'

'Please be kind and choose your words wisely, especially should you choose to comment about something that is none of your business,' she concluded. Everyone is fighting a battle you know nothing about, and my son is winning his.'

Dallas' post has been liked over 69,000 times, and over 17,000 people have left comments. 

'He's such a beautiful boy, with a lovely smile. It's a shame that there are people in this world with ugly hearts,' wrote one. 

'So sorry you had to put up with that. Ignorance is growing too much in this world and is giving too much confidence to those it infects. Your son is lucky to have a good mum that takes care of him so well,' wrote another. 

Dallas pleaded with others to be more sensitive when speaking to others