diarrhea and gastric bypass surgery
Gastric Bypass Surgery – a Cure for Obesity
The contributions of Gastric Bypass Surgery in medical science can’t be exaggerated. Its effort in doing away with ailments like obesity and its subsequent complications has in a big way helped people do away with dire consequences of obesity.
The problem of obesity is often being ignored and we seldom realize that serious ailments like hypertension, Gastrosophageal reflux diseases, liver disease and also Atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases often stems out of it. If not treated at an early stage, obesity can give rise to multiple ailments and thrust an individual towards degrading life.
In Gastric Bypass Surgery, the stomach is divided into to segments. The upper pouch is relatively smaller than the lower one. The surgeons then rearrange tissues of the small intestine and connect both the pouches. This results in reduced functional volume of stomach. This reduces the weight to a great extent and prevents comorbid conditions.
Roux-en-Y gastric surgery happens to be the most commonly practiced one in the United States. At first, a stomach bowl is created by stapling or bandaging parts of stomach. This restricts food consumption. After that, a Y shaped section of the small intestine is attached to the pouch so as to enable smooth flow of food through the duodenum as well as some part of jejunum. Nowadays, the surgery is performed with the help of laparoscope.
On the other hand, extensive gastric bypass surgery happens to be a more complicated procedure. In this case, the entire lower portion of the abdomen is removed and a part of the upper stomach remains connected to the small intestine. Thus the food passes through the duodenum and subsequently the jejunum. This procedure reduces weight to a great extent. But this surgery is rarely practiced as it results in mass nutritional deficiencies.
Though Gastric bypass surgery has successfully reduced chances of serious ailments, it is not free from drawbacks. Individuals having undergone this surgery complain of symptoms like nausea, sweating, fatigue and also diarrhea. This happens due to over dumping of stomach contents into the intestine. Sometimes this can result in dire consequences as outflow of acids into small intestine can substantially harm other organs.
Gastric Bypass Surgery happens to be one of the most complicated operations that have to be executed with proper care under vigilance of experienced medical practitioners. If not handled with care, the bandages and staple lines might fall apart giving rise to serious complications. Once a patient undergoes a gastric bypass surgery, he has to observe strict restrictions lifelong so as to avoid further complications.
About the Author
Wain Roy is an internet marketing professional expert in various industries like real estate, web design, finance, medical tourism and weight loss surgery
Had gastric bypass surgery in November 2004, now in the past year….?
I’ve gain almost all of the weight back, was 278 at day of surgery and got down to only 201. Maintained it till about March 2008, then by November 2008 was 250. At this time I’m still 248-252. Also in the past 6 months I’ve started getting these pustules and scabs on my head and it’s only getting worse. My hair is thinning and in the pat 2 months there starting on my face and ears. I’ve been to the DR but I have a crap Insurance so there really stupid, if you’ve had GBS then you know what ‘dumping’ is this DR said there was no such thing that it could ONLY mean vomiting or diarrhea. Now my question is does onlyone know what it could be or a name of it or what kind of Dr I should be asking to see, the gastrointeroligist that my Insurance covers has NEVER hered of ‘Leacky Gut Desiease or Syndrome” what do I do?
Remember how you had to take all that nasty protein after surgery, Please start popping it in as fast as you can, My mom has the same problem and your body is just rejecting the protein right now (I will email the explanation when I call my mom in the morning) She lost all her hair until they figured it out, your body goes in cycles and sometimes forgets what it’s doing.
A Dr. who doesn’t believe in dumping is a doctor who has never dumped. Believe me, I dump and I dump hard, its the worst feeling in the world. What insurance do you have and where do you live? I wouldn’t mind helping you locate a doctor who has a brain.
It doesn’t sound like leaky gut syndrome though, but I think you need to get that looked into. (Do you have black oily poop?)
