What You Should Consider Before Getting Weight Loss Surgery
Weight loss surgery is a surgical procedure that helps patients to lose weight.
This procedure involves restructuring the digestive system in order to cause the patients to lose weight. Sometime called stomach stapling or lap banding, the procedure decreases the volume of food that the stomach can hold at one time. Sometimes the restriction can be to one quarter cup to one third cup of food.
This smaller volume causes only a few nibbles of food at one time to fill a patient. Less food consumed means that there are fewer calories consumed. This results in weight loss. At times the weight loss is very dramatic.
Some of the procedures also include restructuring of the large intestine. A section is removed and thus fewer calories are absorbed into the system from the food that is ingested.
Weight loss surgery is normally reserved for patients who are classified as morbidly obese. Clinically, morbid obesity is defined as having over thirty percent of one's body weight being made up of fat. In practical terms, this normally means that a person is at least one hundred pounds overweight.
There are some complications to consider with weight loss surgery. Some of these can be very serious and can cause death. Some possible problems that can be anticipated include blood loss, blood clots and reactions to anesthesia.
After the surgery there are also some serious side effects that should be considered. Some patients have hair loss as a result of the surgery. Others have problems getting all the necessary nutrients. In particular, patients report problems with anemia. Anemia presents a whole new set of problems that have to be dealt with. Patients should be sure to take iron and B-12 supplements as prescribed by their physician.
Before the surgery you may need to have some procedures done. An upper GI is often ordered, since it cannot be done after the surgery. You may also be required to have a psychiatric evaluation and clearance from a cardiac specialist.
After losing vast amounts of weight, patients may have excess skin that cannot shrink to its normal size. This may require a second surgery be performed. This second surgery, called a panniculectomy. This procedure involves removal of the navel.
The advantages of weight loss surgery are numerous. Patients are able to lose and keep weight off. Weight related problems may be reduced. Patients may no longer have back problems and type 2 diabetics may be able to stop taking any medication yet have blood sugar levels remain in the normal range.
The decision to have weight loss surgery is a serious one and should not be taken lightly. - 17269
This procedure involves restructuring the digestive system in order to cause the patients to lose weight. Sometime called stomach stapling or lap banding, the procedure decreases the volume of food that the stomach can hold at one time. Sometimes the restriction can be to one quarter cup to one third cup of food.
This smaller volume causes only a few nibbles of food at one time to fill a patient. Less food consumed means that there are fewer calories consumed. This results in weight loss. At times the weight loss is very dramatic.
Some of the procedures also include restructuring of the large intestine. A section is removed and thus fewer calories are absorbed into the system from the food that is ingested.
Weight loss surgery is normally reserved for patients who are classified as morbidly obese. Clinically, morbid obesity is defined as having over thirty percent of one's body weight being made up of fat. In practical terms, this normally means that a person is at least one hundred pounds overweight.
There are some complications to consider with weight loss surgery. Some of these can be very serious and can cause death. Some possible problems that can be anticipated include blood loss, blood clots and reactions to anesthesia.
After the surgery there are also some serious side effects that should be considered. Some patients have hair loss as a result of the surgery. Others have problems getting all the necessary nutrients. In particular, patients report problems with anemia. Anemia presents a whole new set of problems that have to be dealt with. Patients should be sure to take iron and B-12 supplements as prescribed by their physician.
Before the surgery you may need to have some procedures done. An upper GI is often ordered, since it cannot be done after the surgery. You may also be required to have a psychiatric evaluation and clearance from a cardiac specialist.
After losing vast amounts of weight, patients may have excess skin that cannot shrink to its normal size. This may require a second surgery be performed. This second surgery, called a panniculectomy. This procedure involves removal of the navel.
The advantages of weight loss surgery are numerous. Patients are able to lose and keep weight off. Weight related problems may be reduced. Patients may no longer have back problems and type 2 diabetics may be able to stop taking any medication yet have blood sugar levels remain in the normal range.
The decision to have weight loss surgery is a serious one and should not be taken lightly. - 17269
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April Kerr owns website Greg Walton MD which is all about bariatric weight loss and bariatric surgery vitamins.
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