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Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Reality About Minimally Invasive Weight Loss Surgery

By Timothy Gray


Weight loss surgery has been the best solution for most people with excess weight in the recent past. The majority of these people go for it because they need a quick and efficient means that can readily assist them in controlling their body mass without affecting their daily activities. The diet and activities of a person are always responsible for excess weights and to remedy this one can choose to undertake a minimally invasive weight loss surgery.

Since the most cases of overweight are diet related them the essence of undergoing the surgical operation is to minimise the food amount taken into our body system majorly achieved by reducing the stomach size. There are different types of surgical procedures that are offered. There are four principal ones, that is, duodenal switch, gastric sleeve, adjustable gastric band and gastric bypass.

Gastric by- pass is whereby the doctor removes the stomach and leaves behind a small part of it. This remaining part is known as a pouch. Since the bag is small, it means that one will be forced to eat less. The food eaten will intend to by- pass the whole stomach and pass directly from the pouch to the small intestine.

The adjustable gastric band is the procedure where a small band is used to regulate the amount of food entering this body part. The entrance passage of the stomach has the band fitted on it. The tightness of this band is adjusted using a unique small balloon inserted in between the band.

Gastric sleeve involves the surgeon removing the whole stomach living behind a narrow tube known as the gastric sleeve meaning that the food accommodated in the stomach is less than in a normal stomach. This operation also usually controls the enzyme that is responsible for hunger, ghrelin.

There is another one a bit complicated than others called the duodenal switch. In this procedure, the stomach is reduced just like in other cases. In addition to this is that much of the food is limited to go through much of the small intestines through a gastric sleeve. Such a scenario limits the amount of food nutrients and salts absorbed into the system.

A revision weight loss surgery is usually a special after procedure offered to patients who have shown no sign of improvements after the first operation. The possible cause of this may be a failure in the procedure or even using a type of surgery instead of another one since they are not always guaranteed to work efficiently.

Thorough consultations and research are vital before going for this operation. One should be able to identify the actual cause of their excess body mass. In the case of an error in the process, fatal effects are possible. Therefore, one has to so careful with who and how the process runs.

As mentioned earlier, the surgical procedure is not an assured means of dealing with body mass problems. However, best results are achieved if a patient maintains discipline in taking frequent exercises and maintaining a healthy and sizeable diet since getting the outcome right is a dream come true for many.

Evidently, it is a toll order to deal with weight loss practices. The procedure is not easy to undergo thus one should avoid being overweight through all means possible.




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