Gastric Sleeve

Gastric sleeve is surgery that is carried out on obese patients so as to go about another kind of weight loss procedure if they are not fit to carry out a lap band surgery. This procedure is to enable people attain a safe weight for an invasive surgery.

By making small incisions the surgeon put in a viewing tube with a small camera attached to it so as to see the inner part of the stomach. This way the part of the stomach to be removed is seen easily. Then the remaining part of the tube shaped stomach is closed with staples. There after a gastric bypass is carried out after which the patient has lost a good amount of weight necessary.

With the gastric sleeve surgery, the stomach size decreases by 60 to 80 percent. After this, the thin tube is what remains. The part of the stomach removed is that which produces Ghrelin; a hormone responsible for stimulating hunger. Thus hunger is reduced as well as quantity of food taken in. there is less food intolerance and less risk of malnutrition.

Be well informed before going in for a weight loss surgery. Carrying out a research as well as consulting a weight loss surgeon is very essential. This is the best way to know if you are in the best condition for the situation u are going in for.

It is important to include here that this procedure is not reversible once done u life with that for the rest of your life. Sometimes you will have to take food supplements since you can not take in sufficient food to give you the normal nourishment.

So before you go for gastric sleeve get informed. Wish you the best.