Gastric Bypass

If regular diet and exercise haven’t proven to be effective in your attempts to lose weight and you continue to struggle with obesity, then gastric bypass surgery may be right for you. Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery works by dividing your stomach into two separate pouches, an upper pouch and lower pouch, and then reconnecting the smaller pouch to the lower portion of your small intestine.

By creating a smaller stomach pouch that holds only one cup of food, you will be restricted in terms of how much you are able to eat. By limiting your food ingestion and caloric intake, you have the malabsorptive component and the restrictive of weight loss. With both, the components restrictive and malabsorptive, you can lose a significant amount of weight in a relatively short of time. Most patients who undergo gastric bypass surgery lose 10 to 20 pounds every month for a year.

For general, if you have 100 pounds or more of overweight, is impossible lose weight and not retrieve it if you don’t submit a surgery, probably will continue increasing the weight and develop other complications of obesity, which can seriously affect your health and shorten your life. The decision of submit a surgery is should not be taken so delicate, is being to estimate to be permanent and for all your life. The changes that can produce in your life are generally very positives, but will always see all the implications.

Which are the risks?

You should know in every surgery can have complications, and in this surgery it’s bigger. The specific complications it will discuss easy to understand with you, in person, is possible it produce a dead and the risk of dead is approximately 1 to 300. Therefore, have to examine carefully the benefits front the risks. You should be considerate if you have any other alternative way to lose weight. Plus, you should considerate if you are a viable candidate for the gastric bypass surgery.

Gastric Bypass. Specialists in Weight Loss in Rosarito, Baja California