| What to expect after Gastric Stapling
When diet, exercise, and medication fails, a physician may approve a bariatric procedure, but keep in mind that the stomach is where the body's mechanical tasks of mixing, storing, and emptying occurs, patients must be aware that they will be reducing their stomach to a small pouch.
Some complications may occur after a gastric banding procedure, including but not limited to malnutrition, nausea and vomiting. Because the stomach stores all the swallowed liquid and food, it requires the muscle on the upper part of the stomach to relax before accepting large volumes of food.
Mixing food also occurs in the upper part, producing digestive juices by the stomach and by muscle action, however the gastric banding procedure requires the attaching of a band or staple in the same area where all these digestive procedures occurs. Hence, a restrictive reaction occurs with the stomach limiting it to holding less food than usual.
A Gastric banding procedure is one of the best treatments for obese patients because it is a reversible procedure if needed or the patient shows signs of major health complications. Obese is the term to define all those individuals whose Body Mass Index (BMI) is greater than 40 or those with 100 pounds over their ideal body weight in men or 80 pounds in women.
Individuals who are diagnosed with sleep apnea, diabetes, high blood pressure or heart disease can also be suitable candidates for a gastric banding procedure disregarding their BMI ranges between 35 and 40. The Benefit of reducing weight this way can be minimized due to serious bariatric side effects.
Benefits of gastric banding procedure, apart from weight loss and controlled eating, include lower blood sugar, reduce or eliminate sleep apnea, lower blood pressure, decrease the workload of the heart, and reducing cholesterol levels. Bariatric procedures should not be considered a solution to reduce weight for a person that is slightly overweight.
Not all people that undergo gastric banding procedure develop complications or side effects and health risks cannot be universally applicable to all patients. However, after the procedure, the patient is taken to a recovery room for observation, receiving pain medications if needed or administered through a device connected to an intravenous line.
After a short while patients are encouraged to move around in bed, and even get up and walk to improve their strength, while pulse, breathing and blood pressure, continue to be monitored. Patients will be given fluids after a day or two, evolving to pureed food and the normal eating procedure is recovered after one month following surgery.
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