| Gastric Bypass Surgery Overview
Among the different bariatric procedures, the most popular is gastric bypass surgery, a simple procedure that makes the stomach smaller in size, allowing the food to bypass part of the small intestine, hence its name. This is possible by making the stomach become a pouch about the size of an egg, making you feel full with just one cup of food during each of your meals.
Reducing the stomach, the food that you can eat is also reduced, as well as the calories consumed per day, but bypassing the intestine is what may cause you health problems and complications, but particularly malasorption and malnutrition. This is the reason why all patients that undergo gastric bypass surgery are prescribed with supplements and vitamins that improve their nutrition.
Although there are several gastric bypass surgeries, the most common and widely accepted as one of the best options for obesity is Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, the procedure that reduces your stomach by placing staples or a surgical band in the stomach to divide it creating the pouch.
Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery also connects the smaller stomach to the middle portion of the small intestine, bypassing the rest and the upper portion of the small intestine through an intrusive procedure, making a large incision in your abdomen, or by a non-intrusive procedure making a small incision using the aparoscopic approach.
In order to be prescribed with a gastric bypass surgery, your will need that your doctor supports your request for this procedure, after checking that your application meets these requirements:
- If your age range is between 18 and 65 years
- No history of alcohol abuse
- Have been obese for at least 5 years
- If your weight is over 100 pounds of excess weight
- Not being able to reduce your weight with traditional methods
- No signs of untreated depression or another major psychiatric disorder
Gastric bypass surgery, like any other surgical procedure, may have risks involved, whether complications, side effects and even mortality, although very rare, patients may die due to this surgery. However, your doctor will perform an in-depth evaluation before consenting for this surgery.
It is estimated that people who undergo a gastric bypass surgery are more likely to lose weight for the next 12 months after the procedure. Although it depends on your weight before the surgery, making it necessary for up to 4 or 5 years when it comes to open surgery, but from the laparoscopic approach, the results are within 69% to 82% of excess weight lost over 1 to 5 years.
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