Stomach Sleeve

Fitting A Stomach Sleeve Can Help You Lose Weight

Stomach sleeve operations can help to save the lives of those who are put under threat by chronic obesity, and for whom an answer needs to be quickly found. The problem of chronic obesity is more extreme in Western nations than it has ever been before, and different solutions need to be found to prevent it from being fatal on many occasions. Surgery has always been a possibility, but it has never been a recommended course of action due to the high risk factors which are now thankfully being greatly lessened.

The idea behind stomach sleeve surgery is to reduce the area of the stomach which can be used for the storing and digestion of food. This will force the patient to consume fewer calories while still providing a feeling of fullness. The one problem with this system is that it can also reduce absorption of nutrients which the body needs. It is important to understand that sleeve surgery is not something to be used lightly or just by anyone who has a weight problem. This is serious surgery for people who have tried and failed with other methods, or who have a need for fast treatment to prevent possible death.

It is vital to make sure that the sleeve surgery option is only considered after all of the dietary possibilities have been exhausted. There are thousands of people for whom dieting is never going to work, but there are countless others who have been setting up a cycle of failure simply by following the wrong advice. There are many diets which involve cutting calories and attempting to starve the body, and these are doomed to failure right from the start. The body cannot cope with such extreme deprivation and will react against it.

If a proper medically supervised dietary and exercise regime has been tried and found wanting, then there is a case for fitting a stomach sleeve to prevent excessive calorie intake. This sleeve only needs to shut off a small proportion of the stomach to have an effect, and the result will be gradual and sustained weight loss over time. This will be a much healthier way to lose weight than crash dieting, and it will also not give you continual hunger pangs. There is always a risk involved with any gastric sleeve procedure, but with a small incision the risk can be greatly reduced.

There has always been a high degree of risk associated with the full stomach banding weight loss procedure, the one which only leaves a small percentage of the stomach open for normal use. But that risk is now greatly reduced. New keyhole surgery techniques have made it possible to fit a gastric band without the need for large incisions into the body. The first incision is to allow a small video camera to be inserted into the body, and this allows the surgeon to operate without the need to see directly inside. Other small incisions are made for the surgical instruments.

Fitting a stomach sleeve in this way involves far less shock to the body, and much less anesthetic needs to be used. Mortality rates are reduced by a very high percentage, and the amount of recovery time is only a fraction of that needed from full open surgery. Assuming the patient is otherwise in a reasonable state of health, there is no reason why they can not leave hospital almost immediately and be back at work within days. This kind of laparoscopic system has the potential to change the industry completely, and open up to far more people the benefits of fitting a stomach sleeve.

Elizabeth Rowley

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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