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Get To Know More Regarding Lapband Surgery

By Sharon Cox


A significant number of the world population is struggling with obesity, and more people are trying to innovate new ways to deal with the problem. Though one solution to obesity is changing your lifestyle, especially matters concerning your diet you can undergo a surgery that gives you healing in a shorter time. Lapband surgery is an operation that is gaining popularity across the world in helping patients with obesity.

The procedure is also known as gastric banding. Using a laparoscope, the surgeon fixes an adjustable belt that goes around the upper side of your stomach. The belt is made using silicone materials, and you can always loosen it or tighten the belt. While stretching the band an amount of saline is put into it to ensure that it is full. A port is connected to the port for easy adding of the saline.

When this process is undertaken, it aims at reducing the size of the stomach so that the volume of food received decreases from the initial volume. It also aims at increasing food passage to other intestinal parts. Another effect of the operation is that the stomach hormones will continuously send signals to the mind and from mind back to the stomach of satisfaction and satiety when only small volumes of food are ingested. This is because the small pouch will get filled easily bringing satiety.

To ascertain whether you require the surgical procedure you should begin by weighing your kilos. People who have more than 45 kilos above the required weight are ideal candidates for the process. The operation can give the patient a solution to some mass-related diseases which include diabetes and high blood pressure among others.

Before conducting the surgical procedure, your surgeon will need information on the various weight loss procedures that you previously tried. The operation is however restricted to people who are past the age of 18 hence not ideal for children. Before the process is done the surgeon requires the patient willingness to adjust his diet and avoid alcohol and any other drugs.

The person undergoing the process must have the right information before the doctor commences to do the surgical procedure. Most of the doctors who perform these surgeries require the patient to be emotionally stable. For Individuals struggling with gastrointestinal diseases such as ulcers, the doctor does a check to understand the risks and mitigate them. For people with diseases affecting the lungs, the procedure cannot be done. People with heart diseases are also not allowed to undergo the process.

Patients who plan to undergo the procedure are always advised to reduce some weight before undergoing the process to increase the success rate. For individuals who are incredibly obese, the risks associated with surgery may be higher than the expected benefits, and this may make the doctor not to accept the patient. The procedure is not lengthy, and in most cases, the surgeon will take around 1 or 2 hours in theatre.

This in most cases makes the doctors fail to administer the procedure to the patients. Anesthesia is used to eliminate pain. It is also a laparoscopic procedure which makes the patient not to have visible scars. It also comes with dietary adjustments.




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