Overview about the bypass surgery
It’s a known fact that being overweight creates a lot of health related issues. Most of the times any amount of diet or exercising don’t help much in loosing that excess fat in your body. In such a situation most of them opt for surgical treatments like bypass surgery that helps them shed all the extra pounds in one go.
Bypass surgery in most parts of the world is rapidly becoming one of the most popular treatments among obese men and women.
Who should consider this surgery?
Not every person who is overweight can opt in for bariatric weight loss surgery. There are certain guidelines that need to be followed before one wants to consider it. This surgery is usually suggested for people whose body mass index (BMI) is 40 or above. And, of course, for those who can bear with the surgery cost.
Also, for those who have serious health related issue such as hypertension or high blood pressure, diabetes, heart related problems and so on, due to being overweight.
Guidelines for gastric bypass surgery
- The person should have been over weight for a minimum of 5 years
- He/she shouldn’t have any past history of depression or psychiatric disorder
- They shouldn’t have any history of alcohol abuse
- They should be between the age group 18-65yrs
The procedures
Roux en-Y (Proximal) – Roux en-Y for bypass surgery is an important and most sought after technique. This is performed on obese people and is very-much result-oriented and worthy.
Roux en-Y (Distal) – The unabsorbed starches and the accumulated fat is shifted to the large intestine to improve the weight-loss prospects. This is also a suitable method but it depends on the body mass and the advice of the surgeon.
Mini-Gastric-Bypass – This is also referred to as MGB. It is a bypass but is not a surgery. In this, surgeons create a small curvature to help the patient in weight-loss.
What is required to do the surgery?
Bypass surgery differs according to requirements of the person undergoing the treatment. Unlike any other obesity treatment this involves experts that include a surgeon, a psychologist, an anesthesiologist and other qualified specialists who help the patient both physically and psychologically throughout the treatment.
Apart from that the patient also needs to be admitted for 3-5 days in the intensive care unit. That period might even get extended to a couple of weeks depending on how the patient’s body reacts to the surgical treatment. The sooner the patient’s body starts healing from the bypass surgery, the sooner he/she can go home.
The cost of bypass surgery
As the procedure involves gastrointestinal operation so depending on the specifications of the case gastro bypass surgery cost may vary between $15,000 and $35,000. At times when complications arise and the patient is unable to cope up with the after affects of the surgery then the cost may go up to $50,000 or more.
In other words it completely depends on how the patient copes up with the complete procedure both physically and emotionally.
More things to know about this surgery
Well apart from the actual there is also physical and mental consent involved while opting for bypass surgery.
Regular exercise and curbing certain eating habits may be hard or even impossible to follow initially but when practiced on a day to day basis it surely will become a habit to remain forever. So, exercise everyday even if it is for a few minutes.
The emotional cost involves preparing yourself to be positive for all that comes your way after the surgery. Looking at you changing people around you may react in a different way, there might also be few risks involved in it. However it completely depends on the patient’s will power to stand strong in any given situation and come out as a new being.
