Gastric Bypass Surgery

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

Gastric Bypass surgery is one of the most popular weight loss surgeries used for treating morbid obesity patients. Gastric bypass is a type of bariatric surgery that makes your stomach smaller, so you consume less food and your body absorbs fewer calories.

Bariatrics is a branch of medicine that deals with the causes, prevention, and treatment of obesity patients through surgical interventions for weight loss. Bariatric surgeries are almost the only alternative left for the majority of morbid obesity patients with body mass index (BMI) over 40, or for those with BMI 35-40 and developed co-morbidities.

Morbid obesity is a very serious overweight condition, which arises from severe accumulation of excess weight in the form of fatty tissue. It may result in occurrence of the so called co-morbidities, such as:

·   Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease
·   Type 2 Diabetes
·   Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease
·   Liver Disease, etc.

These are the facts and I know they sound pretty scary, but I promise you the gastric bypass surgery really solves all these problems.

Gastric bypass surgery for weight loss features dividing your stomach into a smaller upper pouch and larger lower part, as well as a re-arrangement of the small intestines. So that the food you eat is literally bypassing the larger part of your stomach and the first part of your small intestines.

Gastric bypass can be either open or laparoscopic surgery. As a more advanced technique the laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery is faster, easier and safer, so it is more often used these days.

After the surgery you’ll feel full faster, eat less food and absorb fewer calories form food, which in turn leads to significantly reduced co-morbidities and to obvious weight loss.

If you are quite determined to undergo a gastric bypass surgery for weight loss, first you need to be a qualified candidate for it. Which means you should be diagnosed with morbid obesity (to weight greater than 100 pounds over your ideal body weight) and to have BMI higher than 40 or BMI of 35 to 40 combined with co-morbidities.

If you have any of these symptoms, then you are a potential candidate for the gastric bypass surgery, which I assure you will change your life forever.

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