Solve your Obesity problems with Bariatric Surgery

Obesity or carrying too much body fat may have harmful effects on your health. It is in this context that surgeries such as Bariatric Surgery have grown in immense importance.

What Is a Bariatric Surgery ?

Bariatric Surgery is a surgical procedure which aids weight loss with by restricting the food intake capacity of the stomach, instigating nutrient mal-absorption or both.

How is it done?

Bariatric Surgery mainly involves methods to manipulate the size of stomach to restrict food intake or to bypass a section of intestine to limit absorption rate.

Bariatric Surgery - Types

The various types of bariatric surgeries are: -

• Restrictive Procedures
• Adjustable gastric band
• Sleeve gastrectomy
• Mal-absorption procedures
• Gastric bypass

Who are eligible for bariatric surgery?

A bariatric surgery would be ideal for you if you belong to any of these categories: -

• A BMI greater than or equal to 40
• A BMI around 35 and suffering from obesity related morbidities
• If other weight loss techniques have failed to bring about significant results
• If you have been suffering from obesity for about 5 years

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Weight Loss Treatment

Bariatric surgery is an option for the people who are suffered with severe obesity and are not able to lose weight with other methods or have severe obesity related health problems. Bariatric surgery is a type of operation that makes changes in the digestive system to lose weight. It makes stomach smaller, permit to eat and drink less at one time and feels full after having a little meal. Bariatric surgery is recommended to the teens and adults who have obesity related health problems such as high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, heart disease or sleep apnea. 

There are 2 types of Bariatric surgery. In open Bariatric surgery, doctors make a single, large incision in the stomach. In laparoscopic surgery, the doctor makes few small incisions and inserts thin surgical tools through the incisions. Laparoscopic surgery is more convenient, less risky, less painful and scarring in comparison to open surgery. The patient recovers faster with laparoscopic surgery.  Open surgery is recommended on certain people who have had a stomach surgery before, have high level of obesity or have specific complex medical problems.

Types Of Operations

• Laparoscopic adjustable gastric band
• Gastric sleeve surgery/sleeve gastrectomy
• Gastric bypass
• Duodenal switch (rarely used)

Benefits Of Bariatric Surgery

• Helps in lose weight
• Becomes physically more active
• Improves cardiovascular health
• Decreases high blood pressure problems
• Improve fertility
• Eliminate problems related to sleep apnea

Risk Factors

• Infection
• Bleeding
• Blood clots

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