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| Bariatric Surgery by Sarah, &saraxarin |
Are you a person who struggles with their weight? If you are currently 100 pounds overweight and suffer from a number of weight-related issues such as arthritis, heart disease, sleep apnea, high blood pressure, or infertility, there may be an option for you: bariatric surgery.
What is bariatric surgery?
It is a number of different procedures designed to treat people who suffer from morbid obesity and all of the conditions and diseases result from being obese. There are currently over 15 million Americans who suffer from obesity and obesity-related issues.
These procedures aim to modify the amount of food that a patient's stomach can physically hold. The goal is drop this capacity from around a pound down to just a few ounces and lower the amount of food a patient must eat to feel full. If you do not have a body mass index (BMI) of 40 or more, you should not be receiving these treatments unless you suffer from obesity related issues and have a BMI of at least 35. These procedures have been proven extremely effective at cutting down a patient's weight, and seriously improving if not curing their obesity related diseases. Let's take a look at a few different types of bariatric surgery.
Gastric Bypass
This procedure takes the patient's stomach and reduces it from the size of a football to the size of a golf ball. This shrunken stomach is then moved down the patient's digestive system to the middle of their small intestine. This is done to bypass the section of the small intestine that absorbs the most caloric content. Post-operation patients as a result do not absorb as many calories as they once did, and due to their tiny stomach they eat significantly less food as well.
Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Banding
In this procedure the patient has a saline filled band wrapped around the upper portion of their stomach. This creates a small pouch of stomach at the top. Due to the band, patients feel full after eating less food, and the physician can adjust the size of their stomachs by adding or removing saline from the band. This procedure is the least invasive type of bariatric surgery, but you will still absorb caloric content.
Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy
This procedure is the newest of the three types of operation and has not been extensively studied for long-term effects. However, the initial tests and reports are promising. The crux of this operation is the removal of nearly 85 percent of the patient's stomach. What is left behind is fashioned into a structure looking like a sleeve.
While these surgeries may sound dangerous, there is no reason to worry. The federal government states that the chances of a patient dying from these operations are less than one tenth of one percent. Patients have an 89 percent increased life expectancy as a direct result of their bariatric surgery. Get the facts and find out if you qualify for one of these life-saving operations.
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