Weight loss surgery with adjustable gastric band

Weight loss surgery or bariatric surgery is a kind of procedure which is done on the people who are morbidly obese, want to get rid from this and failed by using different other way to lose weight. Different weight loss solutions like dieting, exercise or medication help you to lose your weight but not in effective manner. The effective manner to lose weight is Surgery.

Such type of procedure introduces weight loss by reducing the capacity of stomach. Different methods are used for reducing the capacity of stomach. One is by implanting band i.e gastric banding or through the removal of some portion of stomach or through re-routing the small intestine to make stomach pouch small i.e gastric bypass surgery.

Gastric band surgery used a silicone band which is wrapped around stomach to restrict stomach size. This is also called adjustable gastric band surgery because this band can be adjusted in order to achieve required weight loss depending on the patient. Weight loss surgery adjustable gastric band is safe and painless solution than any other weight loss surgery like Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery (RNY), Duodenal Switch (DS) and Biliopancreatic Diversion (BPD. In this surgery there is no need of cut and staple and hence this is treated as safe surgery. There is no need to remove or re-rote of any digestive part. Mortality rate while this surgery is less than 1%. This is minimally invasive surgery and hence this is becoming popular in between obese people.

Weight loss surgery adjustable gastric band has many advantages over other weight loss surgery in many cases. Its success rate is high and risks associated with this surgery are less. Quick recovery and less hospital stay. There are some side-effects of this surgery but they are not the permanent and not cause any death (sometimes it may be). This weight loss surgery is reversible surgery this means at any point of time you can easily remove this band i.e reverse the surgery. And after this your stomach return to your normal state as it was before.

Since in this adjustable gastric banding surgery there is no such case of removal of digestive system or re-routing hence there is no any issue of gastric dumping syndrome like any other weight loss surgery which involves such procedure. Unlike any weight loss surgery like BPD, RNY and DS in this Weight loss surgery adjustable gastric band, patients don’t get any kind of nutritional deficiencies or malabsorption of micro-nutrients. There is no need of taking Calcium supplements and injecting Vitamin B12.

According to the WHO (World Health Organization) weight loss rate must be from ½ to 1 kilogram and in this adjustable gastric band weight loss surgery generally patient loss 450 to 900 gram per week which is good. But in other surgery you experience rapid weight loss which may create the problem of rapid weight gain. Weight loss rate in adjustable gastric band surgery is slow but at the end it means over 5 years you get the similar weight loss by any other surgery.

This would be the long term solution for you if you are committed for this. Read here for Gastric band vs Gastric Bypass.