oss plastic surgery or bariatric surgery is
fast gaining popularity because increasing affluence and
knowledge of using surgery as a form of targetted or fast
weight loss.
Patients may opt for a weight loss plastic surgery out of
reshaping their body shape or simply to improve their health
and escape from severe obesity.
There are basically three basic types of weight loss plastic
surgery :-
There are the restrictive surgical procedures like the lap band
surgery to make the stomach smaller and thus limiting food
consumption.
Then there are the malabsorptive surgeries to shorten the
intestine that comes in contact with food so that the body
absorbs less calories from the food consumed.
Finally, there are surgeries that combine both restrictive and
malasorptive plastic surgeries.
Restrictive surgeries encourage easy weight loss in two ways.
First, the surgeries reduce the amount of food consumed. The
stomach is shrunk by creating a small pouch at the top of where
food enters and therefore less food is consumed by the patients.
Restrictive surgery also make patients feel full longer because
the lower outlet of the pouch is made smaller so that food
empties slowly. Lap band cosmetic weight loss surgery and
Vertical banded gastroplasty are examples of restrictive
surgeries.
Gastric bypass surgery is a combination both the restrictive
and the malabsorptive surgery. This surgery is done by creating
a small stomach pouch to restrict the amount of food intake.Then
a bypass of the duodenum and other parts of the intestine is
constructed to cause malabsorption. Roux-en-Y gastric bypass
and Distal Gastric Bypass are examples of the gastric bypass
weight loss plastic surgery.
What are the risks of weight loss surgeries?
Health risks are almost the same for both restrictive and
gastric bypass surgeries although the risk of nutritional
deficiencies for calcium, Vitamin B12 and iron are higherin
gastric bypass surgery patients. Intestinal leaking may also
occur.
Gastric bypass surgery patients may experienced the “Dumping
Syndrome.” This is when food moves too fast through the small
intestine and the patient may experience nausea, cold sweat,
dizzy and fainting spells, weakness and occasionally, even
diarrhea.
Patients can opt for the either the traditional open surgery or
laparoscopic sugery the latter being that there will be smaller
scars as well as less down time since the bariatric weight loss
surgery patient can recover faster.
As with any form of surgeries, patients must ask their surgeons
which for of cosmetic surgery is best suited for them. Before a
patient is committed to undergo a surgery, he must have tried
other healthy means to lose weight. A weight loss surgery
should always be the last option when all other efforts failed
to help the patient to reduce weight.
About The Author: Chris Chew is the author of “Burn Fat Build
Muscles Fast”. More free articles at his site and blog
http://www.sgfitness.com and
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