Firm Bodies

Obesity surgery may have a high price, but to avoid it could cost much more in the future. The cost of the treatment could easily be outweighed by the cost to your health of the procedure, which could end up saving your life.

What It Is?

The most common procedure performed in an obesity surgery is a gastric bypass, which reduces your available food intake by making your stomach smaller. The procedure is done by the attachment of the small intestine to the small stomach, which bypasses the duodenum and extends out to the jejunum. It reduces nutrient absorbsion, and allows control of quatities of food that you consume by affecting your appetite – aiding weight loss in a healthy way.

Gastric banding otherwise called Adjustable Gastric banding which is a procedure using a hollow silicone rubber band which is placed around the top of the stomach leaving only a small gap for anything to pass through.

The inflation happens when a solutiion is fed through an access point connected to tubing attached to the skin. The passage size can be altered and the mechanism adjusted over a period of time.

Those patients who continue with the necessary changes to their eating habits after they have had the operation, can lose up to 50-60% of their extra weight is two years or less.

Am I suitable for the treatment?

Do you think that you may be eligible for this procedure? You are already probably aware if you have disussed weight loss with your doctor. Generally, if you’re at a high disease risk or have some type of serious condition, you are most likely a candidate for obesity surgery. Similarly, if you have a body mass index or (BMI) that is considered exceptionally high, or you have been classed as obese for 5 years or more.

Usually, patients under 18 are advised to continue trying to lose weight on their own, but in some cases, teen obesity cannot be corrected with regular diet and exercise. Once a patient reaches 18, they could well become eligible for treatment if they had previous been turned down.

For more insight and information about private hospitals, then visit our website for local contact information.

 

Tags: gastric banding, obesity surgery centre, private health care, private hospitals

This entry was posted by firmbodies on Wednesday, September 15th, 2010 at 10:10 PM and is filed under Health and Fitness, Obesity. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.