May 4, 2020
Obesity is a serious health hazard for any human being. Period. Being overweight can have severe effects on your physical, mental and emotional health. It hampers your day to day life, and can lead to depression. Studies have shown that persons affected by severe obesity are susceptible to regaining weight after employing conventional therapies like consuming fewer calories, ketosis, and exercise.
What is Bariatric Surgery?
Bariatrics is a branch in medical science that deals with the causes, prevention, and treatment of obesity. Weight loss doctors are certified professionals who have trained extensively in the field of bariatrics. Whether you’re looking for weight loss surgery in Fort Worth or Dallas, DFW Bariatrics and General Surgery gives you certified weight loss doctors with an immaculate track record in providing minimally invasive weight loss solutions.
Bariatric surgery is effective when looking for ways to attain long term and sustainable weight loss. It is known to resolve obesity-related ailments like diabetes, high blood pressure, and heart diseases.
Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass
In this type of surgery, the surgeon creates a small crevice on the top of your stomach such that only this surgically created pouch is allowed to receive food. This limits the number of calories a person can consume. After this, a portion of the small intestine is cut and connected to the pouch, food now directly flows from the pouch to this part of the intestine. The stomach still produces digestive juices and the part of the intestine still connected to the stomach, is attached further down. The food now bypasses a big section of the small intestine enabling the small intestine to absorb fewer nutrients.
Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Banding
In this type of surgery, an inflatable balloon kept within a band is placed around the upper section of the stomach. This leads to the creation of a smaller stomach pouch above the band, the stomach band has a narrow opening to the rest of the stomach. After this, a port fits under the abdomen, and a tube connects this port to the abdomen. Injection and suction of fluid through this tube adjusts the size of the band. The size of this gastric banding adjusts the amount of food that the stomach can hold and digest.
Sleeve Gastrectomy
During this procedure, a part of the stomach is surgically removed. The remaining part of the stomach is restructured into a tube. Due to the decrease in the size of the stomach, the storage capacity is also reduced. This regulates the ghrelin hormone which in turn decreases the feeling of hunger.
Duodenal Switch
Just like sleeve gastronomy, this surgery begins with the removal of a large part of the stomach. The valve responsible for releasing the food to the small intestine (duodenum), along with a section of the small intestine is left untouched.
After this, the middle section of the intestine is closed off and attached to the duodenum, this step is called the duodenum switch. The isolated part of the intestine is not removed from the body, it is reattached to the end of the intestine, this allows the digestive juices to flow into the readjusted part of the intestine. This step is called the biliopancreatic diversion. As a result of this surgery, food bypasses most of the small intestine and limits the size of the stomach and absorption of calories.
Last Word
Bariatric surgery is a proven way of tackling obesity to reclaim good health and even live longer. Weight Loss Doctors at DFW Bariatrics and General Surgery in Fort Worth, Texas, are experienced when it comes to helping obese people lose weight with minimal to zero side-effects. Call us today to get answers to all your questions about weight loss surgery in Dallas, Texas at 469-620-0222 or email us at [email protected].