Lap-Band Surgery
A kind of weight loss surgery known as Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Banding involves inserting an access area below the skin. A gastric band with a balloon that can be inflated is attached to the access area. The lap band is attached around the top section of the stomach which makes a tiny gastric pouch.  

The Lap-Band surgeon will then fill the balloon with a saline type solution which will minimize the stomach’s size. The saline can be adjusted or filled to alter the individual’s food consumption. The result is the patient will experience a sense of being full with little quantities of food. A benefit of Lap-Band surgery is that it is the only kind of weight loss surgery that can be reversed. The complete process takes less than sixty minutes and is done on an outpatient basis.  

Gastric Sleeve Gastrectomy
The Gastric Sleeve surgery (sleeve gastrectomy) is a weight loss procedure that is typically done on patients who are extremely obese and may not satisfy the conditions to have lap band surgery.  The surgeon makes tiny surgical cuts and inserts a laparascopic tube which has a mini camera to see inside those incisions so a section of the stomach can be taken out. The stomach area that is left over is shut with staples. It is typically connected with a gastric bypass once the patient has gotten rid of a significant amount of weight.

When a person chooses a weight loss surgery, it is essential to understand the whole process thoroughly. It is vital that you conduct your research and discuss with a bariatric surgeon to find out if you are eligible and if you have any certain type of health conditions. The people who are fully aware of their weight loss surgery choices will understand that the decision made will be the best choice for their case.

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Laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery benefits you with weight loss, which occurs during the first year following surgery. Significant weight loss can make medical problems such as diabetes, hypertension and coronary artery disease easier to treat or may eliminate a problem altogether. You will also benefit from the use of laparoscopy, which requires much smaller incisions than traditional abdominal surgery. Patients generally have less pain and scarring after surgery and recover more quickly. Laparoscopy also reduces your risk of developing hernias, which are more common after traditional abdominal surgery. Though laparoscopic gastric bypass procedure can be reversed, you should carefully consider all of the risks and benefits before electing to have this surgery. Persons considered for surgery must be carefully evaluated. Studies are performed to assess the health of the patient’s cardiovascular, pulmonary, and endocrine systems. A psychological evaluation is considered essential by most physicians to determine a potential patient’s response to weight loss and change in body image and ability for permanent lifestyle change. Nutritional counseling is also a must before surgery.

Laparoscopic gastric bypass in India is one of the best options available for weight loss to abroad patients seeking treatment for obesity at a cheap cost, the patients are being provided with the facilities at the biggest corporate hospitals of India in all the major cities of India such as Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Nagpur. The hospitals are fully equipped and well trained staff 24/7 present at your service. Patients will also be provided with a holiday vacation tour arranged by the medical tourism India at various tourist destinations of India at a very  affordable price offered. For more Information on Laparoscopic gastric bypass in India Visit us at http://www.indianoverseashealthcare.com/index.htm or you can send us your queries at IOHenquiry@gmail.com else at http://www.indianoverseashealthcare.com/yourquery.htm .

Being obese increases your risk of diabetes, heart disease, stroke, arthritis and some cancers. A crude population measure of excess fat is the body mass index (BMI), a person’s weight (in kilograms) divided by the square of his or her height (in metres). WHO defines overweight as a BMI of 25 or more, and obesity as a BMI of 30 or more. There is also evidence that the risk of chronic disease increases progressively as average BMI increases above 21.

Morbid weight problems are on an increase and despite diet control and exercise regimes; increase in weight has become a health hazard. Severe obesity damages the body by its mechanical, metabolic and physiological adverse effects on normal body functions. These “co-morbidities” affect nearly every organ in the body in some way, and produce serious secondary illnesses, which may also be life threatening.

The risk of developing these medical problems is proportional to the degree of obesity. Obesity comes with its bag and baggage of threats:

Years of life lost: People who are obese do not live as long as those who are not obese and the earlier a person becomes obese; the more years of life are lost.

Dysmetabolic Syndrome X: This syndrome involving abdominal obesity, abnormal blood fat levels, changes in insulin sensitivity and inflammation of the arteries is associated with a markedly increased risk of heart and blood vessel disease: a precursor to the onset of diabetes in adults.

Heart Disease: Severely obese persons are approximately 6 times as likely to develop heart disease as those who are normal-weighted.

High Blood Pressure: Essential hypertension, the progressive elevation of blood pressure, is more common in obese persons leading to development of heart disease, and damage to the blood vessels, causing susceptibility to strokes, kidney damage, and hardening of the arteries.

High Blood Cholesterol: Cholesterol levels are commonly elevated in the severely obese – another factor predisposing to development of heart and blood vessel disease.

Diabetes Mellitus: Overweight persons are 40 times as likely to develop Type-2, Adult-Onset diabetes. Elevation of the blood sugar, the essential feature of diabetes, leads to damage to tissues throughout the body: Diabetes is the leading cause of adult-onset blindness, a major cause of kidney failure and the cause of over one half of all amputations.

Sleep Apnea Syndrome: The stoppage of breathing during sleep is commonly caused in the obese, by compression of the neck, closing the air passage to the lungs.

Obesity Hypoventilation Syndrome: It is characterized by episodes of drowsiness, or narcosis and is caused by abnormalities of breathing and accumulation of toxic levels of carbon dioxide in the blood.

Respiratory Insufficiency: Obese persons find that exercise causes them to be out of breath very quickly, even during ordinary activities. This condition prevents normal physical activities and exercise, often interfering with usual daily activities.

Heartburn: The real problem is not with digestion, but with the burning of the esophagus by the powerful stomach acid, getting to where it doesn’t belong.

Asthma and Bronchitis: Obesity is associated with a higher rate of asthma, about 3 times normal.

Gallbladder Disease: Gallbladder disease occurs several times as frequently in the obese, leading to stones in the gallbladder and abdominal pain and hence removal of gallbladder.

Besides, there are other health problems like Stress Urinary Incontinence, Degenerative Disease of Lumbo-Sacral Spine, Degenerative Arthritis of Weight-Bearing Joints, Venous Stasis Disease, Embolism – a serious or even fatal event

and a host of social and psychological effects.

We’ve all heard of fitness centers, dieticians and nutritionists doing big. Losing even 5 to 10 percent of your weight can delay or prevent some of these diseases. But sometimes things just don’t work the way we want them to. There’s no fret anymore as now we have help at hand and it works like magic. It’s tried and tested and has no side effects whatsoever. Wockhardt Hospital India offers exclusive obesity treatments by a team of expert consultant physicians, dieticians, endocronologists, physiotherapists, anesthetists, allied specialists and surgeons.

At Wockhardt Obesity Surgery Centre, medical professionals endeavour to treat your medical condition and safeguard your well-being .Wockhardt has for you, a team of experts who combine their skills and experience to help solve patient’s health problems.

Bariatric Surgery is an effective alternative to treat severe obesity. Only people who suffer from morbid obesity (body mass index higher than 40) can have bariatric procedures.

PROCEDURES FOR OBESITY SURGERY

Different types of surgery for treating Obesity or Surgical Operations for Morbid Obesity

The Laproscopic Adjustable Gastric Banding

The band is placed laparoscopicaly “key hole surgery”.The band can be adjusted by injecting fluid into it as an outpatient.Reversible Hospital stay 2-3 days

In this procedure a band made of silastic material is placed around the stomach near its upper end creating a small pouch and narrow passage into the larger remainder of the stomach.

The surgery involves forming a small pouch in the upper part of the stomach that effectively becomes a new baby stomach. The sialistic band is wraped around the upper portion of stomach all around to form a “baby stomach.” The narrow opening or stoma is formed by the bands two ends joining together. This band has a balloon on it which can be inflated or deflated in later stages so as to increase or decrease the size of stoma. This step makes the SAGB a stoma adjustable operation. This can be done anytime after the operation with the help of port kept under the skin at the time of operation, Now the food still goes down the normal way and is digested in the bowel normally. The big difference is that the pouch will only allow a very small amount to be fitted in at one time and when this happens satisfaction is achieved and hunger will subside until the pouch eventually empties into the duodenum. So you feel full after eating a small amount of solid food and your intake of food can be kept to two or three tiny meals a day with no desire to eat between meals.

GASTRIC BYPASS

Gastric pouch 30 ml. Part of small intestine is bypassed. Greater weight loss. Hospital stay 5-7 days Vitamin mineral supplementation required.

In this procedure a small stomach pouch is created by stapling the stomach. This causes restriction of the food intake. Next a “Y” shaped section of the small intestine is attached to the pouch to allow food to by-pass the first part of small intestine. This causes reduced calorie and nutrient absorption.

Advantages of Laproscopic Gastric Bypass RNY

• After gastric bypass surgery, weight loss is more predictable and usually maintained. Average excess weight loss is usually higher than with purely restrictive procedures.

• One year after surgery, weight loss can average 65% to 70% of excess body weight. After 10 to 14 years, some patients have maintained 50-60% of excess body weight loss.

• 96% of certain associated health conditions (back pain, sleep apnea, high blood pressure, diabetes and depression) were improved or resolved according to a 2000 study of 500 patients. It also helps in leg swelling, high cholesterol, urinary incontinence etc.

Sleeve Gastrectomy

With this procedure, the surgeon removes approximately 60 per cent of the stomach laparoscopically so that the stomach takes the shape of a tube or “Sleeve”.

Technically most of these procedures are reversible but it is not advisable to contemplate reversal as person can regain the loss weight. Band slippage incidence has reduced with the modified band placement technique, improved band design and standardization of band adjustment protocol.

Bariatric surgery continues to benefit people struggling with morbid obesity, most importantly it saves lives. But finally it is you who has to remember that “health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year!!”

Although it is the most popular procedure, there are other bariatric surgeries or weight loss surgeries. 

• Lap-Band adjustable gastric binding is another type of weight loss surgery.  In this procedure, an inflatable band is tightened like a belt and will divide the stomach in to two pouches.  However, weight loss results are slower than gastric bypass surgery.  Also the pounds shed could be less than the amount of lost weight with gastric bypass.

• A part of the stomach is also stapled with vertical banded gastroplasty.  The stomach is divided into two parts, but there is not intestinal bypass.  This would just make the patient eat less since the stomach has limited space for the food.  Losing weight using this procedure is not as tremendous as gastric bypass results, nor could it sustain weight loss for longer period of time.

• The biliopancreatic diversion with duodenal switch removes 80 percent of the stomach.  In this procedure, much of the small intestine is bypassed. Losing weight could be sustained over a long period of time.  However, there are also increased risks with this kind of medical procedure.  Patients tend to develop malnutrition and vitamin and mineral deficiencies. 

These are just the basic medical procedures and weight-loss surgeries that can be performed to obese individuals and patients.  Nonetheless,  a person who would like to undergo bariatric surgery would have to undergo different medical and psychological examinations.  Those who are qualified for gastric bypass should have at least tried an organized weight-loss program for the last six months monitored by a doctor, but acquired no significant results with their body weight.

Overall, if you are obese, there are steps that you could start doing before considering gastric bypass surgery.  Before you start any diet or exercise program, it is recommended to consult a doctor first to guide you on how you could shed the pounds and keep them off.    You could start by changing the variety of food you eat, the nutritional content and the amounts and frequency of meals.  In short, you would have to improve your eating habits. 

Start incorporating activity to your daily activities.  Fat in the body is actually energy not used of consumed by the body.  So you would have to start losing those excess weight by having an exercise plan.  You could start by giving at least 30 minutes a day for daily activity.  It does not have to be done continuously, you could break it into different stages suited for your time.

To get better results, it is also important to get all the necessary support tat you could get.  There are still tendencies that a person who have undergone gastric  bypass surgery to regain their weight.  They could still turn to overeating which could result to serious problems like expansion of the pouch or even rupture of the stomach.  Counselling and support groups play a major role in helping obese patients deal with weight loss, confidence or self-esteem and other major changes. 

Gastric bypass surgery is not the only option.  There are other options that can be followed to get the desired health condition.  Whatever treatment or surgery that we follow, in the end, what would matter is our will and determination to undergo the change.