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What is gastric sleeve surgery?
Gastric sleeve is a slimming surgery in which the surgeon reduces the volume of the patient’s stomach. In gastric sleeve, 57-08% of the patient’s stomach is removed. Therefore, it can be said that this surgery is an irreversible one. This surgery is carried out with the aim of treating obesity and improving other diseases caused by it. After the surgery, the person can eat a small amount of food. As a result, they get full quickly and lose weight in a short period of time.
Who can undergo gastric sleeve surgery?
This surgery is one of the options that is performed after many efforts to improve exercise and diet habits and also the application of weight loss drugs has failed. But generally, a person must have certain criteria to fit for this surgery.
- Body mass index more than 40
- Suffering from high blood pressure or diabetes
- Obesity more than 40 kg
- Not addicted to smoking and drinking alcohol
- Nervous and psychological obesity
Complications of gastric sleeve surgery
This surgery is a relatively safe method, and the probability of death in it is less than half percent, but like other surgeries, if it’s not paid enough attention to post-operative care, a person may suffer from infection, bleeding and damage to other organs.
Aftercare for gastric sleeve surgery
After surgery, a person’s nutrition will decrease dramatically. This person’s body is not used to this amount of food and energy input, and it is likely that the sick person’s body will suffer from a lack of various minerals and vitamins such as iron, calcium and vitamin D in the first few days after the illness. In this case, the doctor prescribes a variety of oral and injectable vitamin drugs to the patient. For this reason, at least two tests should be performed after surgery, so that if there is a vitamin deficiency in the body; with the order of the relevant doctor, all kinds of vitamins should be prescribed for the person. In this case, the person’s health will no longer be at risk.
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