Weighty Wednesdays with Dr Muffi: 'A sleeve stitched to save life'
Weighty Wednesdays with Dr Muffi: 'A sleeve stitched to save life'If you weigh more than 25 kgs of your ideal weight, is weight loss surgery the answer? Dr Muffazal Lakdawala helps you understand better:
Surgical answerBariatric surgery is one of the most advanced solutions for obese and super-obese people for reducing their weight. Sleeve Gastrectomy is an irreversible procedure that reduces the size of the stomach. In this surgery, approximately two-third of the stomach is removed laparoscopically, resulting into a tube or a sleeve. Hence one begins to consume less food with earlier satiety. It also eliminates most of the cells that produce the hunger-inducing hormone called Ghrelin. As a result, the patients lose about 80-85 per cent of their excess body weight over a period of 18-24 months.
Single incision sleeve gastrectomy (SILS) is performed through a single tiny hole in your navel.
Advantages: There are negligible chances of developing nutritional deficiencies after Laproscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy. Resolution of Type II Diabetes, Sleep Apnoea, Dyslipidaemia etc.
Reshma Khan (39), mother of three children, started putting on weight after her last delivery and also due to faulty eating habits. Pre-surgery she was 150 kgs, with joint pains, sleep apnea, venous ulcers, inability to walk and shortness of breath, fatty liver, and gout. In 15 months, she lost 60kgs and is still losing weight with other problems!
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