Umpteen diseases accompanied by weight loss surgery

According to the surgeons, a person trying to shed some extra inches by the weight loss surgery may prove fatal for him as these surgeries are accompanied by a series of harmful after effects.

Weight loss surgery is harmful, uncomfortable, and expensive and to top it all it invites many other diseases like pulmonary embolism, liver disease, kidney disease, stomach cancer, esophagus, pancreas and bowel and vascular thrombosis just to name a few.

We nowadays have become more health conscious. To reduce some extra pounds, there are a plethora of therapies like excessive dieting, rigorous exercise, and medication etc. But today people are trying more unconventional ways of shedding weight and thus going for the weight loss surgery as an option.

People are trying this surgery since 1954. Weight loss surgery is an operation that includes gastrointestinal surgery to stomach stapling to gastric bypasses. Other options are stomach wrapping, jejunocolic bypass, truncal vagotomy, and biliopancreatic diversion. Basically these operations include creating a small stomach pouch. As the size of the pouch avoids an individual to eat in excess, and if he tries to eat much he will feel ill.

Weight loss surgery is basically for those people having a weight of 100 pounds or more and also for those individuals who do not respond to other weight loosing therapies. According to the doctors obese people should exhaust all other options of loosing weight and consider weight loss surgery as their last resort. They say that if somehow weight loss surgery goes wrong, it can prove fatal too. So they believe that non-surgical treatments are much more effective then the weight loss surgery.

Dr. Ed Livingstone, chief of gastrointestinal surgery at the University of Texas South Western Medical School has been trying these surgeries form the last past 13 years. He himself claims that one out of every 200 dies due to this surgery. According to him the risk involved in the surgery is that the patient can get blood clots in their legs or lungs. They can get hernias at the site of incision due to which they can get physically ill, nauseous and sweaty if they have a diet rich in sugar.

Weight loss surgery might prove as a boon to certain obese people, but it is not appropriate for everyone.