If you are obese and you want to go for a surgical treatment, your body mass index (BMI) should be greater than 40. If you are experiencing any health related diseases such as diabetes, cancer, stroke and arthritis your BMI should be 35. Surgery will help the obese person to lose weight. Your physician should advice you, for surgical operation.
6 Ways of Using Surgery to treat Obesity:-
There are many surgical treatment for obesity such as gastric binding and stomach stapling. Decide which surgery is best for you. These surgeries, will allow you to eat until small pouch above the stomach is full and you are able to digest food. Some surgery like Roux-en Y gastric method makes the stomach small. It makes you eat less food. It also stops your food from flowing into different parts of the small intestine.
Surgery is very risky and difficult. You need to discuss about it with your doctor. Choosing to treat obesity with surgery is very difficult.
After the surgery, the first thing you need to change is your diet. You will have to eat food and drink in small amount. For several patients, it is allowed only to eat pureed food.
After the surgical operation, eat food slowly. Chew your food well. You will tend to suffer from stomach pain initially. You will also tend to vomit. Stick to the diet food.
Some of the common side effects after the operation are iron deficiency and low calcium. You may tend to develop ammonia and you can become weak. Have more vitamins in your diet. It is recommended to take appropriate supplements of vitamins.
Make sure that you drink plenty of water. Drink 8 to 10 glasses of water per day.It will washout the toxins and all the impurities present in your body.
