Gastric Banding Surgery-solution to obesity

Gastric banding is a 'key hole'surgical procedure used for obesity. Silicon gastric band made of silicon is inserted and placed at the upper portion of stomach through laparoscopy. These gastric bands can be expanded and adjusted. Patients who are overweight (80 to 100 lbs) and having body mass index exceeding 40 are treated by this method.

The Gastric Banding surgery is performed by laparoscopy. First, a small opening is made near the belly button. Then the abdominal cavity will be filled with Carbon Dioxide gas and a small laparoscopic camera is introduced into abdomen through the hole.

Picture of inside of the stomach and the abdomen is send to a video monitor by the camera. Surgeon will view the pictures and perform the surgery with the help of long handled instruments. Additional incisions are made in the abdomen and the gastric band is placed around the stomach.

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The gastric band will form a small pouch on the top of stomach. The size of the pouch will be considerably small compared to that of the stomach. It can hold only 1/6 of what stomach can hold.

The brain will then get the message that the stomach is full and intake food gets reduced. The patient will feel full stomach with less quantity of food and intake of food gets reduced. This leads to loss of weight.

Gastric banding surgery requires only a very short hospital stay. The recovery from surgical effects is quicker and number of scars will be lesser. Normal life and food habits can be restored very soon after the surgery. The band is made of compatible materials and its long stay in the body does not cause ill effects to the patient.

Proper diet and care after the surgery is essential for the success of the Gastric Banding surgery Patient will be put on liquid diet initially. Later they will be allowed to take mushy food and then solid food. The period of diet control varies from patient to patient.

Gastric band surgery will not be suitable for all persons. This is not prescribed for patients having medical complications and for those who had earlier abdominal surgery. Open surgical methods have to be employed for such patients.

The Gastric band surgery enables a person to shed 500 gems to 1 kg weight per week on an average. The loss of weight will be faster initially and about 20 to 40 kg weight loss can happen in the first year.

Periodical adjustment of band will be required for success of Gastric band surgery. This can be done only after test in the hospital. The first adjustment will generally be done after 4 to 6 weeks of Gastric band surgery. The adjustments require only few minutes and no additional surgery.

Gastric band surgery usually does not develop into complications and the success rate of the surgery is fairly high.

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