Gastric Bypass Surgery Complications

Monday October 30, 2006 ins: Body Contouring Tag(s):

As we talk about gastric bypass surgery, you might be left with the wrong impression that there are many gastric bypass complications to worry about.

Firstly, it strongly depends on the type of laparoscopic surgery. Secondly, read on to find out the truth about gastric bypass complications.

Roux en-Y gastric bypass complications

So let’s start with the advantages of the most common laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery in the U.S. - the Roux en Y gastric bypass:

You will not have nutritional difficulties after the surgery, except for the sweets.

You will eat less food, and even if you want to, the upper small stomach pouch will not allow you to eat more.

Your caloric intake will be far less, because the Roux-en Y gastric bypass allows the food you eat to bypass the first part of your small intestine, so no absorption is performed there. And the actual digestion and absorption occurs in the lower part of the small intestine. Thus the amount of absorbed calories is rapidly dropped and you start losing weight.

As for the Roux en-Y gastric bypass complications:

The most unpleasant complication after a laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery is the Dumping Syndrome when your body doesn’t feel good if you consume high sugar sweets and carbohydrate foods. The symptoms are sweating, nausea, dizziness and weakness.

Mortality rate of the Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery is 1 in 200, which I think is the most serious gastric bypass complication.

Mini gastric bypass complications

Another type of laparoscopic surgery is the mini gastric bypass surgery - based on malabsorption.

It also used to have some gastric bypass complications, such as inflammation caused by corrosive juices from the small intestine entering the gastric pouch.

But this was before its improvement to what we know today as the laparoscopic mini gastric bypass surgery. Despite its improvements, the mini-gastric bypass requires a revision surgery.

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