Why Qualified Bariatric Doctors Can Save Your Life

By Sandra Mitchell


Obesity in men and women are rising every year especially in a city that never sleeps like New York. Adjusting to the fast phased lifestyle here means crunching time to get work done. This could lead to high health risk especially for people who have problems with their food in take and diet.

Every parent in New York wants to have happy and well cared for children. That is why most clinics who deal with weight management refer qualified bariatric doctors to patients who are undergoing a difficult time losing fat and weight. However finding a qualified surgeon or doctor in the area can be a daunting task, but with these few tip it will surely help you find a way.

Bariatric surgery is an invasive aciurgy that was designed to interrupt the process of food being digested. There are different types of aciurgy like the open approach or using a laparoscopy. The open method means surgical tools are used to cut open the abdomen to remove fat. While a laparoscopy is a surgical instrument tunneled into the abdomen through an incision.

In recent times patients often prefer to have a laparoscopy due to the minimal incisions being made on the body. Tissues have less damage due to the lack of incisions needed in the operation. Compared to an open surgery where post operative complications are higher than laparoscopy.

Identifying the kind of operation is useful to store in your knowledge vault, so that when you consult your primary health care consultant. You are able to ask in depth questions and other related questions. There are four areas of bariatric surgery, and these are AGB, RYGB, BPD-DS, and VSG.

Surgeries are four kinds all which use devices that restrict and promote malabsorption in digestion process. Restrictive devices and surgery are used to decrease physically the diameter of the organ. Compared to malabsorption surgeries that also uses restrictive devices as well as promote a disturbance in flow of meal absorption.

The pylorus is a kind of valve which controls the flow of food into the stomach. However it is a high risk and causes long term health problems since nutrients and food have a harder time being absorb. Most patients require to take supplementary minerals and vitamins. Gastric Sleeve surgery is done by the surgeon making a large cut on the abdomen that uses small tools and a camera to guide the surgeon during the operation.

A part of the stomach is removed and a thin vertical sleeve or tube is left around the height of a banana, and is enclosed by surgical staples. However with all kinds of invasive operations there are always risk and complication being faced by the patient. Since almost all the surgery requires to cut open the body.

Malabsorptive type is an invasive surgery such as the AGB. It helps by decreasing the size and removing some parts of the digestive tract. Thus, interfering with calorie absorption, a good example is AGB that use synthetic band wrapped around the top part.




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