The stomach is divided into two sections, creating a top piece that is the size of a golf ball that receives the food. The rest of the stomach remains in place but is no longer attached to the new small stomach, it is traced down to the next part of the digestive tract, called the small intestine. The small intestine is then attached to the new small stomach to catch food.
A very small amount of food will completely fill the new stomach, and the person feels full immediately. When the food passes into the small intestine, the hormonal craving for food decreases and the brain's desire for food shuts down.
Everyone did the surgery for health reasons. People were borderline diabetics with high blood pressure.
Two years after her surgery, one woman feels like a new person who lost more than half of my body weight enabling her to walk and exercise and went back to work after being retired for a dozen years.
Although the surgeries were a success, people should know that the gastric bypass surgery is a tool and not a cure for obesity. People still need to eat properly and take vitamins.
The doctors provide u a tool kit with guidelines on what to eat and what not to eat, because your body reacts to food differently after the surgery. You have to eat proteins first, because you're not going to eat the volume of food that you used to. You have to take vitamins and drink water and exercise; no snacking allowed.
Having gastric bypass surgery is a lifelong commitment.
The surgeon performs around 200 surgeries a year and candidates have to be 90 pounds over their ideal weight.
Complications can be caused by not following instructions. A leak between the stomach and the intestine may develope or a pulmonary embolism can be caused by a clot that forms and goes to the lungs. Clots can be a result of a patient not walking around enough after surgery.
The best patients are willing to make the commitment by researching what the surgery involves.
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